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Thank you sir!  There's something I can work with!  I was also thinking that maybe I can export the trails in NW Trails as tracks and import them onto my other maps...not sure if that would work cuz I haven't really analyzed how the trails are captured for the transparency layer.

I know its a sin but I have the 24K West Topo maps and am wanting to overlay NW Trails into Garmin's basecamp.  I'm guessing that I could upload it together with the .gdp created in basecamp to affect my desired end result (have NW Trails as overlay on garmin) but I want to see it in basecamp on top of the other maps for route planning.

-Huckleberry

I have the same unit (purchased about 1 month ago) and am thinking about doing a hike early next week.  What map set are you using (one from this site or)?

Also - I see that on another hike you had the elevation profile entered in.  Do you know if the elevation or any other differences were drastic between the two tracks?

Thanks -

Will do then.  I expect to have an active summer if I can ever get over a stupid injury (tried to do too much in to little time)..

Thanks for the link!  Definately looks like more than a 5 minute deal...I'll spend some time looking at it next week.  If I can't figure it out then blah...will have to give up some hard earned cash.

I really appreciate your site.  If I get into this hobby any further I'll have to find some way to contribute.  I don't have a lot of programming in my background.  I saw NW Trails is willing to take info from my hiking trips for their trail DB.  Is there anything remedial like that I can do for your site?

Best regards,
Hucklberry

I know I'm getting greedy - paid $220 for this thing (Garmin Vista HCx) and want to use all its features. 

This site will turn out to save me a hundred bucks if I can get the maps into basecamp and use vertical profiling. 

Otherwise I feel obligated to bight the bullet for this feature. 
If someone can tell me how to get the vertical profile I think I could even settle for something other than basecamp and donating part of what I would have spent. 

I have not been having the most fun trying to change waypoint labels and such in MapSource.  The labels seem to default to the elevation which takes too much screen space.  I know there are other editors out there but at this point I've burned 8hrs (probably more) just to avoid giving Garmin $120 or so.  If this was my day job at about $XX per hour, well, let's just say the economics of this venture are dropping faster than our economy.