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I'd say that under the circumstances you describe, your 9mm and your pepper spray would both be useless unless they were already in your hand. Your best bet would be get the hell out of its way (which is probably what you would instinctively do anyway) and hope for a thicket of trees you could get into that the moose couldn't get through. Moose are not only dangerous, but unpredictable, so you couldn't anticipate whether it would ignore you or charge you.

I looked at Homeport briefly awhile ago but wasn't clear if it was simply replacing Mapsource's capabilities for marine maps. It sounded way more complex, which I didn't need. As you say, it's not that expensive, so I'll probably spring for it.

Maps are like layers in Photoshop, where the upper ones hide the lower ones. Each map is assigned a draw priority between 0-31 by the author. City Navigator has a priority of 30, so any other map with a priority of less than 30 will be hidden. A map with a priority of 31 will hide City Navigator, and this is often used for maps with no background, such as the NW Trails map you have.

Since the trail map has no background object, you can see City Navigator (or any other map) at the same time.

This is confusing because the NW topos were *not* showing up if CN was enabled, implying it had a lower number than CN. To clarify, is the priority number the order in which the maps are drawn, starting with 0, and each map has the possibility of covering those drawn earlier?

Also to clarify, by a map with no background object, so you mean some non-transparent object, so for example the trails map only has lines that don't hide what's been drawn earlier?

Thanks for the tip about profiles. I didn't realize all the things they could do. Also that City Navigator (yes that's what I meant) hid contours. The thing you learn by asking questions!

I was already using the recreational profile. However, here's another data point. I installed the NW Topos, removing the WA and ID ones at the same time. I didn't see any contours, but in checking out a few things discovered that I had to disable my navigational maps to get the contours. That'll be a pain to switch on and off. I think I'll go back to the WA and ID topos that didn't have this problem.

I haven't tried it lately, but when Basecamp first showed up, it didn't do marine maps, and I was using them a lot for kayaking, so I wasn't happy about that. Is it any different now? If so, what's the alternative for using Garmin marine maps on a desktop?

The problem was on the GPS, an Oregon 450. Thanks for the suggestion on the NW topos. I did try the the Washington Topos, and that worked, but if the NW is good, it'll mean more states covered.

I installed the WA 24k topo maps and didn't see any contour lines, so I deleted it and reinstalled. Same problem. I had previously installed the Idaho topos, the one created by -Oz-, and I was following the same procedure with WA, so figure something was wrong. Oddly enough, after the second install of WA, the contours in ID no longer showed up, and disabling the WA topos didn't bring back the ID contours; however, removing the WA ones did bring back the ID ones. Any helpful hints welcome, but I'm going to try another version of the WA topo maps.