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4keys

09/12/2018 12:51PM

Do you store your maps rolled up, flat (maybe an art portfolio case), or folded? I guess I'm wondering about the maps like fishers that you purchase flat or rolled up, and then probably fold for a trip.

I roll some, fold some. Guess it depends on how crushed they are.

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AmarilloJim

09/12/2018 01:08PM

I fold mine and place in a 1 gallon zip lock bag

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Ausable

09/12/2018 01:10PM

Rolled for storage.

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andym

09/12/2018 01:34PM

Ours are bought flat and then folded for trips. Once they are folded they stay folded. We have a plastic bin of them. There are a few rolled ones that got bought for some reason but not used yet.

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TipsyPaddler

09/12/2018 01:37PM

Folded and on the bookshelf with my canoeing and BWCA books for trip planning/dreaming. Figured they get folded when I put them in the map case before a trip so I order and leave them that way.

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mirth

09/12/2018 02:16PM

Folded up the way they were received, usually, inside an envelope with my other maps for the BWCA and elsewhere.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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Jaywalker

09/12/2018 07:52PM

Mine are just piled up in whatever fold configuration they were last used, and placed on an easily accessed bookshelf. I dig them out about once a week to research something.

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johndku

09/13/2018 09:26AM

We mark them up with any significant trip happenings, (if we saw a bear, moose, caught a big fish, etc.), I make and engrave an inexpensive frame, and we hang them in my son's room, (my tripping partner) or the basement for future memories. Also easy to take back out and use again.

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ozarkpaddler

09/13/2018 10:02AM

johndku: "We mark them up with any significant trip happenings, (if we saw a bear, moose, caught a big fish, etc.), I make and engrave an inexpensive frame, and we hang them in my son's room, (my tripping partner) or the basement for future memories. Also easy to take back out and use again.

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Now THAT is a really neat thing to do!

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain

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heavylunch

09/13/2018 10:32AM

Flat in a cheap plastic art portfolio case. Probably from Michaels

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housty9

09/13/2018 01:42PM

Mine hang on my walls with BWCA framed pictures around them, them I can dream about trips and plan for trips easy.

Out of control, extreme team.

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Savage Voyageur

09/13/2018 10:06PM

I fold all my maps in quarters and store them flat. I have about a hundred maps folded in a pile like this. I fold them so the map is facing outside. Then I can just fly through the pile until I find the correct map I need. They also fit in my plastic map case this way.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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