Sorry; I've already placed this in another area, then spotted this page.
I am was about to buy a complete set of Gr10 maps and they came to £130!!! Does anyone know any short-cuts where maps are concerned, or can lend / hire or sell me theirs?
Clearly having the maps would be great but are you sure you need them ? On the GR 5 I had both french and english guide books with sufficient maps in them ( Don't know which one plagarised the other but they translated accurately at times. Went thru the French book at home to translate any big words that looked hiking important . Err like footbridge. The guide books should have escape routes described in them.
Plus won't the route have big red blobs of paint at changes of directions etc.
I just bought them out there as i went along. The maps will be readily available in most of the towns and villages that you pass through. They only cost about 8 euros each there (in 2007 anyways), stanfords seem to be selling them at about £13 each so a reasonable saving.
Also bear in mind that the complete set of maps will weigh somewhere in the region of 2kg!!
I agree, in the past I did the Gr5 and Tour de Mont Blanc without them... I guess it's nice to know where you are, though, just in case the world goes misty or something. Seems well incompetent to be caught out without a map....
On the other hand - £130!!!! Thanks John, you whittled it down to £70...
On my GR5 trek, I cut down on weight by buying the next french guidebook of the route on the way...only to find it difficult to find in the town, eventually spotted it in a shop window, the shop was closed for lunch! Waited till the lady opened up. Could have kissed her without the guide my trip was probably over ...it had the maps in. ( It was a long hitch to the next town which was plan B)
You need to fiddle around a bit (select Cartes, then Cartes IGN, set the Opacite to 100%, zoom in to the scale you want), but once you've got all this you could screen shot and then cut-and-paste to create your own personalised maps for free!
Print onto waterproof paper and Robert is tha' mother's brother...
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