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This map is about to be replaced by a new edition in mid-September 2017. Make sure you are buying the latest edition. Water-proof, split-proof, tear-proof, adventure-proof. La Palma Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is simply the toughest, most accurate, easy to read, easy to use map of the island you can buy at any price. |
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This map is about to be replaced by a new edition in mid-September 2017. Make sure you are buying the latest edition. Water-proof, split-proof, tear-proof, adventure-proof. La Palma Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is simply the toughest, most accurate, easy to read, easy to use map of the island you can buy at any price.New 5th Edition of our La Palma Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is a large 1:40,000 scale map, splitting the island into a North (Landscape view) and South (Portrait view) with a generous overlap, produces double sided map of 840mm by 600mm and folds to 235mm by 120mm. Our legendary 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranges from major roads to secondary roads to minor roads to streets and camino rural narrow country roads, plus dirt roads and walking trails. Altitude background colouring is designed to clearly show the altitude range when travelling across the island by car or on foot. 100 metre and 50 metre contours are clearly shown on the map along with a large number of individual height points and all of the official 'Trig' points. Tour & Trail attention to detail includes our useful symbol range including miradors, picnic areas, petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off the road safely.You will easily identify springs, caves, sports grounds, cemeterys, churchs, chapels, lighthouses, towers and forts, camping areas, wind turbines, hotels etc.Our comprehensive gps ground surveys produce the best road mapping available but the value of this "on the ground research" becomes even more important when you leave the tarmac. All of our DWG walking routes are accurately gps surveyed giving you confidence in the accuracy of our Tour & Trail Maps. La Palma Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map includes all the walking routes from Walk! La Palma (new 3rd edition) along with the GR130 and GR131 long distance hiking routes, plus details of the PR walking routes (Pequeno Recoridos), plus details of the SL walking routes (Senderos Locales). It all adds up to the most detailed, most durable, most useful map of La Palma that you can buy anywhere.For our new 5th edition we welcome our new researcher Jan Kostura who has pioneered new hiking routes, along with checking and updating routes, and working with Charles Davis to produce our new edition of Walk! La Palma guide book. 'Super-Durable' means a waterproof, tear-proof, map that can take the roughest treatment and still folds up like new after your adventures.Printed on Polyart using specialist 100% oxygenation inks produces a lightweight map that feels like silk but is a tough as old boots as it shrugs off water, resists tearing and damage better than any other map.'Super-Durable' combined with our special concertina map fold means this 'near indestructible' Tour & Trail Map unfolds easily for use, and more importantly folds back up easily to its compact pocket size even after the toughest use.Custom Map digital edition for Garmin users is available from Discovery Walking Guides website dwgwalking.co.uk plus digital editions are available for 3G gps apps from Viewranger and MyTrails. |