Arizona Traverse - The Secret Variation

[crawler#976]

Great report Jeff!

Glad everything turned out OK.

Nice choice of tires - I think you'll like'm.

We'll be doing the route in July. I got a permit for vehicles, and have a few spots open if anyone is interested.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...ntain-Trail-8-on-the-Coconino-NF-14-July-2012

 

[Uglyduck]

Cool, will do. I'll probably invite you to join as well
Have GPS - will email. Just send me a PM with your address.
Also, look for Crawler#976 posts about the travel management maps he has posted, here's the coconino map. That's what I used to do the route.

The easiest way I have found to use these maps is to print them to 8.5 x 11 using Acrobat's "tile large pages" feature.
1. Set you paper scaling = tile large pages
2. Set the scale to something you can tolerate (I typically use around 65% to shrink the map down and not waste as much paper)
3. Set the overlap to = your printer's margins
4. Print
This will allow you to print those big 38x42 maps if you don't have access to a plotter or want to make a road book.
This is the process I used to to make my mapbook for the entire Arizona traverse ride I did last year.

A more refined way to do the same thing is to open up the PDF in photoshop, cut out what you need, and print...or save as jpg and load it into Ozi Explorer

Anytime you come up let me know, I'd love to get out. I've looked at the Coco FS website and was going to tinker with the iOS download option later, see if its handy at all. I suggested doing this route to my wife and showed her another thread from ADV Rider in which they went up Casner to Williams then back down Perkinsville. She was hooked and wants to do the whole thing over a weekend so I'm trying to get some time off in July to go up with Mark, camp overnight, then go down Perkinsville to Jerome. PM inbound

 

[gm13]

I was wondering what went down after you referenced abandoning your bike in a PM, now I know. Great write up and loved the pictures too. Glad it all worked out.