TI Explorer Colorado 14ers

"The best tool you can buy if you want to tackle the Centennial State's 58 peaks over 14,000 feet high." -Elevation Outdoors, December/January 'Best in Swag' Gear Guide for 2010. (See full review below)

Visited by over ½ a million people every year, Colorado’s 58 peaks above 14,000’, affectionately known as “14ers,” are challenged by seasoned mountaineering experts and weekend explorers alike. Each peak offers a different challenge and a different glimpse of Colorado’s high country.

Based in Colorado, less than ten miles from Mt. Evans (14,264’), National Geographic’s Trails Illustrated cartographic team has been publishing the most detailed and robust trail maps available for the 14ers and premier outdoor destinations worldwide. Each map is carefully researched with the aid of local agencies and experts, contains pinpoint accurate trails, facilities, and navigation aids, and easy to read topography and shaded relief.

Whether you’re planning to bag all 58 peaks, or summit a few of the most popular, having the best maps is not a recommendation, it is a requirement… Introducing National Geographic’s Colorado 14ers Explorer, containing the best maps and easy to use software with tools designed specifically for the unique needs of a 14er adventure.

Colorado 14ers Explorer contains:
• Detailed Trails Illustrated maps, plus genuine USGS 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 scale topographic maps, in a large 14-mile radius around each Fourteener. All maps are seamless, and easily printed from your home printer complete with scale bar, compass rose, GPS grids and your own custom notes and symbols.

• Technical specs, pictures, and guidebook-like information for each peak, provided by the Colorado 14ers Initiative, plus an interactive journal for recording your trips, makes it easy to plan, save, and recount your trips.

• Gain an enhanced perspective on your route with 3D fly-thrus, elevation profiling, plus tools for measuring real-terrain distances, slopes, bearings, and more.

• A robust search tool makes it easy to quickly locate summits, towns, lakes and other features.

• Colorado 14ers Explorer is both Mac and PC compatible and enables import/export of routes, waypoints, and tracks with nearly all handheld GPS receivers.

• Proceeds from the sale of Colorado 14ers Trails Illustrated Explorer go to support the National Geographic Society’s nonprofit mission to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education.

"Developed in conjunction with the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI, 14ers.org), this package is the best tool you can buy if you want to tackle the Centennial State's 58 peaks over 14,000 feet high. Built for Mac, PC, and handheld GPS units, it includes all the details Trails Illustrated maps, USGS topos, and peak stats you could ever want as well as info, photos, and an interactive summit journal." -Elevation Outoors, December/January 'Best in Swag' Gear Guide for 2010 (pg. 22).

Copyright: 10/09

MSRP

$49.95

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