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    Roman Dial
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    @romandial

    Locale: packrafting NZ

    I, too, live for Andrew Maher's "Map Breaks. "

    What I especially enjoy is the transition from imagining the landscape to realizing it, the difference between what I saw in my mind from what I saw with my eyes, and felt with my body.

    What kind of people are we that love these maps so? My wife doesn't love them, for instance. Is it a right brain/left brain thing? Are we the analyst types?

    Any left-handed map lovers out there?

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    Douglas Frick
    BPL Member

    @otter

    Locale: Wyoming

    >Any left-handed map lovers out there?

    Yup.

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    Miles Barger
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    @milesbarger

    Locale: West Virginia

    Roman, nice to see you back on the forums again! I hope you have been on wonderful adventures. I may be working in Denali this summer, so I may have more map and other questions for you than you'd even care to answer.

    But back on topic… my roommate and I were just having this conversation the other day. He, like you and me, loves maps. Covets maps. Pours over maps. He is also a right-brainer, chemistry and math major. Although I'm not what one might think of as stereotypically right brained (English and music composition major), I do have an analytical bent. Still, it's hard to say.

    Like you alluded to, the best part is looking at a map to dream, then being there and comparing, and then, perhaps best of all, looking at a map to remember. You can take a huge state map and say, "I was there, and there, and that's so-and-so lake," and everything that's abstractly represented on the map ties to a memory in your mind and body. It's a wonderful sensation!

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    Andrew :-)
    Member

    @terra

    Locale: Sydney, Australia.

    Yep left handed too.

    I remember reading a joke:
    Q) How do you torture an engineer?
    A) Tie him up then make him watch you fold a map the wrong way.

    This is very true.

    #1378763
    Roman Dial
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    @romandial

    Locale: packrafting NZ

    Miles,

    Yes, back from a month long tropical ecology course I teach every couple years. We went to Borneo. Found and climbed some very tall trees there — redwood sized tropical hardwoods, too, with my Australian tree climbing friends.

    Also doing an 88 hour WFR course over a ten day period on top of full time job with new responsibilities. Have to limit my recreational forum time, I am afraid.

    But I am a compulsive analyst, cartophile.

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