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Subject:Re: BCFS GPX Camp sites was Re: Friday trips again (NVC) - now Lund BC
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:23:26 -0800

What a great list.  Thanks a lot.  Should I have a GPS thingy to punch these
numbers into?  A laptop with some kind of software?

Any suggestions taken seriously.    :)

On Dec 15, 2007 12:09 PM, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote:

> >
> > And lastly, there are hundreds of camping spots along the CirclePac
> > route suitable for Vanagons.  Many are parks and private campgrounds.
> > But I like the private places you can find for free along the many
> > logging roads in the region.  Just ask any Westy owner you see in BC
> > where they like to camp, you'll get lots of good ideas...
> OK here is christmas prize for the listers a while back I wanted to get
> gpx file http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
> of all the BC Forestry Services sites but the BC parks branch said it did
> not exist
> so they gave me a excell spreadsheet with UTM coords so i wrote a little
> apps
> that mapped that to lat/lon then reformatted that to the open source xml
> gps
> exchange format gpx
> so if you follow this link you should be able to down load the a gpx file
> of
> the all the BC forestry
> services sites in bc
> http://members.shaw.ca/trclark/trip/bcfs.gpx
>
> This is the only way to camp in bc:)
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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