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Just looking through old pictures getting inspired for this season. This was a 10-day, roughly 50-mile trek through the Sawtooth Wilderness in Idaho in late August. We used boat service on Redfish Lake (operated by Redfish Lake Lodge) to get to the trailhead and exited through Hell Roaring Lake trailhead. We hitchhiked back to the car from there. Most photos are from an ancient iPhone, so I apologize they aren't as good as they could be but hope you still enjoy.

This project represents a portion of my life's work, and I'm excited to finally share it.

For over a decade, I've been developing the best topographic maps I could imagine, obsessing over every detail: shading, land cover, contour lines, transportation, symbols, and text. They're drawn entirely from software I built myself. The result is something that isn't a satellite image and isn't a traditional map. I hope it feels like the land itself, with added labels, symbols, and trail networks serving the terrain map rather than competing with it.

What's available:

• Two connecting wall maps, Yosemite Valley and Hetch Hetchy, covering most of the park at 1:40,000. Printed large at 44" × 36" with archival inks.
• A single-sheet park poster at 1:75,830 (36" × 44") with 50-foot contours legible across the entire park. Available on photo paper or canvas also with archival inks.
• Four connecting folded maps at 1:40,000 covering nearly the whole park, on highly water resistant media. Each sheet is 28" × 36" unfolded.

The wall maps and folded maps also connect to my Eastern Sierra / Mammoth Lakes maps.

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.

Pictures: detail view (Mount Lyell), wider view (NE park), Yosemite Wall Map, Hetch Hetchy Wall Map, Yosemite National Park poster.