How to read a Topo map?
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ELK GROVE CA USA
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RE: How to read a Topo map?
lines are close means steep grade. if the line makes a circle that is the top of a mountian or hill. if the lines make a V that is the buttom of a ravine and will usually have a creek running at the V. if the lines are far apart it will be flatter. usually there will be set lines marked with a number. this is the altitude, find another line up or down from this line and find another altitude. deduct the two and that is the distance in feet they two are seperated by. use the legend to see how far, usually in miles, those two lines are and you know how many feet in elevation you will go up a hill walking X number of miles.
#4
RE: How to read a Topo map?
deduct the two and that is the distance in feet they two are seperated by.
As was stated earlier.....the distance between the lines will show you (after a little practice) the gradation severity between them.
A good 200 level course will show you how deer use said terrain to travel (normally.....and UNCANNILY normally).
#10
RE: How to read a Topo map?
Here's a good example. Gri22 helped me with this early on, this year. Note the terrain features deer like to utilize to travel....and relate them to your land.
It is UNCANNY how accurate these trails he marked are in real life. You basically go to where he notes on the map...and voila.....trail.
It is UNCANNY how accurate these trails he marked are in real life. You basically go to where he notes on the map...and voila.....trail.