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Plan your adventure with Gmap4

When Gmap4 creator, Joseph Elfelt, first started posting as “Joey” on nwhikers.net, people would post a static images with GPS tracks overlayed by commercial mapping software. “Those would be nice, but an interactive map would be nicer,” says Elfelt of […]

How it all started

People often ask me about the SMC story: where the inspiration came from and how things got started. It’s quite simple. SMC co-founder Jill Stokes, Wild-Rogue Wilderness area In 2005, my wife, Jill, and I were summer caretakers at a […]

Fundraising Spike

A generous SMC donor has agreed to match up to $500 donated by March 1, 2012. Donations of any size can be made, and every little bit counts — we make your dollars stretch on the map. So head on […]

Crazy for coming back

It was 2008. The welts on my shins were becoming unbearable. Small, springy branches protruding from fallen trees killed by the 2002 Biscuit Fire were being cocked by my front foot and released onto my back shin like a switch. […]