Philmont Scout Ranch Trails Map

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Created By: mhinch
Last Updated: April 17th, 2013 9:04pm
Map Coverage:
North: 36.82°
West: -105.25° East: -104.9°
South: 36.34°
Country: United States
State: New Mexico

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This is the output of an ongoing project to capture the official trail network at Philmont Scout Ranch outside Cimarron, NM.  The project is very dependent on the community supplying GPX traces and other forms of input and/or getting them added to openstreetmap.org
 
The map is now essentially complete! We are missing 2-3 short trail segments out of the ~230+ trails at Philmont. But, we're not done! Each year Philmont adds and subtracts camps and sometimes even trails. We need your help to keep this map up to date. See below for what is known to be missing. And if you find something wrong, misleading, ... please let us know -- you could be saving hundreds of future fellow trekkers a lot of trouble!
PLEASE HELP WITH THIS PROJECT!
If you have traces from your GPS that may be of assistance, you have two choices:
Note that these tag values are very important. Only these tag values will be extracted for inclusion in the map provided here! Also, I'm interested only in "official" trails -- please do not add ranger trails, roads, ... that a conventional Philmont camper would not use. 
 
FYI - I will then periodically extract info from OSM using osmosis and mkgmap to create the map here. Please check the "last updated" date in the information block at the top of the screen.
 
The map provided here is "transparent", meaning it can be loaded on top of other (e.g., topo) maps. It is provided as an "img" file that can be directly placed on a Garmin device in the Garmin (or Maps) folder.
 
I welcome thoughts about other ways to process this data, things to add, problems with the map, better processing to make it more usable, ... Send me email with ideas about how to make this more useful to my fellow Philmont trekkers.
 
Things to do - if you would like to contribute, aside from the obvious contribution of GPS tracks of Philmont trails, please consider:
Known Missing Trails. Of the 230+ possible camp pairs as described in the 2011 treks book, we are missing the following trail segments:
  1. On the trail connecting the B-24 wing to the Beaubien-Webster Pass trail, missing 500 meters west from stream bed
  2. Cito Turnaround north (via many switchbacks) to trail junction leading to Harlan and Ute Springs (no 2013 trek use this trail)
  3. Iris Park - we have no trails in/out of this camp (2013 Itinerary 10, 17)
  4. Dean Heck - we have no trails in/out of this LNT camp (2013 Itinerary 25)
  5. Slate Hill Heck - we have no trails in/out of this LNT camp  (2013 Itinerary 25)
  6. Apache Springs Camp west to Philmont boundary, then north to Crooked Creek Camp (2013 Trek 21)
  7. Trail connecting Lost Gap Camp and Deer Lake (2013 treks 4 and 25)
  8. Trail Canyon Camp/Turnaround and the trail roughly SW from there to Dean Cow (2013 Treks 6)

For 2012, there are new turnarounds not yet mapped: Trail Creek, COPE. 

For 2013, some more new camps: Beatty Lakes and Middle Ponil, both in Valle Vidal. Got Lat/Long?

Please help complete these portions of the map!
 
Lastly, if this map is of interest/use to you, please let me know! Are you planning on using it this summer? Did it work well? Can you suggest any changes?
 
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