There are many names they go by, usually tracks or breadcrumb trails. It's the trail that is formed on the GPS map as you walk or drive that shows where you've been. The software that comes with your GPS can extract it and place it on a map; so can free programs like
EasyGPS.Wayne: not the tracks you traveled including some people who took interesting side trips.
One of the things that we are very careful to do is to stay on the published trails.
I would like to reiterate my point above. The access in the Moab area is under such constant attack that we cannot afford to leave the published trails. You risk arrest and certainly you will not be allowed to go with the Zu crowd.
Holy cow has this gone way off track and made some horrible assumptions.
1. There are other legal roads and trails in the area (usually identified by signs and highway markers, or being listed in the above mentioned book) that other ZuZoo members reported going to in the past, complete with pictures and reports. They are completely legal, but were not part of the official ZuZoo trip. More on sidetrips in (3)
2. I thought it would be nice to build a GPX database of the trails, local features (good restaurants, good picture points, tricky trail points) and make it available to all ZuZoo members, without charge (Note: I also maintain the Texas Zu and Arizona Zu list, just because I'm that kind of guy). Perhaps I am niave and too assuming, but as I asked members on the ZuZoo trip, it implied legal trails.
3. Sidetrips part two: I'd catalog other "things you can do while at ZuZoo" points. One member also reported rock climbing in the local area. If he thought it was a good area for climbing, it would be nice for other Isuzu climbers to know where he was. If someone goes rafting and enjoyed it, a waypoint to the rafting company would be included. These are other events that draw us together, or provide less interested spouses/kids with other things to do while we wheel and make them more likely to make this the family vacation next year.
4. We're all not experts and repeat attendees. For those who haven't been there before, you would even have a waypoint showing you the exact location of the campground. Handy, especially for night arrivals.
5. With a breadcrumb/track, there are programs that can grab the time and date stamp on photos, compare them to the time/date on the track, and show you on a map where the picture was taken. (This assumes the GPS track and the picture were taken at the same time--you can't use last years track with this years pictures.)
6. This is not new. I had been asking for/working on this for the last couple of years, including asking in this year's countdown post and
this post where I posted what I had.
I didn't mean this to be a thread hijack, just a simple request to help the ZuZoo/Isuzu community. Without anger or distress or pointed fingers, the opinion seems to be it's not on-topic, not recommended, bordering on illegal and with the threat of expulsion to have any map besides a purchased paper one.
I request no more discussion in this thread--please PM me. (or use my webpage to get my e-mail)
All others who have ZuZoo information they would like to share with the Isuzu community, please PM/contact me with the track/breadcrumb/waypoint file. Garmin format, text format, or GPX format are all fine. Similar to
the above post, I will post them on my personal website again next year, providing complete separation for the Wire.
