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→Update of Trail File for GPS and Google Earth created in 2016
These maps are all “transparent” and should be displayed together with a digital topographic map. I do not recommend to use these trail maps without a topographic map in the background.
To install the maps on your Garmin GPS devise simply copy the IMG file into the “Garmin” folder on the Micro-SD card. When starting the GPS devise you may need to enable the map using the map options of your devise to make the map visible. You may install all four maps simultaneously and simply enable and disable the maps as needed on your GPS devise. The map ID numbers were chosen to avoid conflicts between these fife maps (the map ID numbers use the entire range from 16110601 16112701 to 1611064916112749).
If you hike without a packraft you should install only the Hiking-Only maps. These maps show all the hiking routes and hiking options but none of the routes on water and none of the trails that lead to these water routes. By using the Hiking-Only map you avoid that you follow unintentionally a trail that leads you to a lake or river from where you cannot continue by food.
Best regards,
Jan
==Planned Update in 2017==
Santiago, February 22, 2017
Dear Hikers,
we (Meylin Ubilla and Jan Dudeck) have hiked in December 2016 and January 2017 the provisionally planned southern sections all the way to El Chalten in the Fitz Roy area and thereby investigated and recorded the southern extension of the GPT.
Bethany and Lauren (https://her-odyssey.org/) who practically thru-hiked the entire GPT in the last two seasons contributed heavily by investigating and recording the recently added northern extension of the GPT to Santiago de Chile.
Based on this information and contributions from other hikers I plan to update the trail documentation in the coming 8 months to have an update available by October 2017 before the next hiking season.
Best regards,
Jan
