Walking Map

For this assignment, I did a map on the trail connecting Pine Point to Chapel Point at Treasure Valley Scout Reservation that I went to in Scouting. The importance of the scout camp to me is enormous, as I went there every summer for two weeks, sometimes more. I became very acquainted with the trails, and knew most of them and where they led. I chose the Pine Point to Chapel Point trail because its along the lake edge the whole way, and passes by the council fire, and the swamp that the scout camp sometimes uses for mud events.

The path is mostly straightforward, and does not have much deviation along its way. The few points where another path does cross it, they typically lead further away from the lake which discounts them from being the path that should be taken. I mae sure to enlargen th etrail path, so that it would stick out from the actual roads, as I made the mistake of using the same color pencil for the path. I used a sharpie to enlargen the path and make it stick out, at the loss of the detail of the smaller path.

If I had more time, I would have tried to incorporate more detail, and include some more of the landmarks at the scout camp. I had to use an online map of the scout camp in order to know distances and some of the other trails in the camp, and got carried away with following the online map.

I showed the map to my roommate Angelo and he liked the detail of the map, and how the trail that I was showing him stuck out from the rest of the map, especially as it being in the middle could have made it become lost among the rest of the image. The tree for the marker of the start was also interesting to him.