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They had several books and a few maps to try to find their way, yet all of their sources showed no more than the areas main road system. With countless logging and industrial roads, an elaborate trail system and thousands of recreational points of interest, no other gps map source provides as much detail for canadas vast wilderness areas. The backroad mapbooks series is the goto source when it comes to backcountry canada maps. Must have for anyone camping,fishing, boatingpaddling or driving back roads of vancouver island and. May 16, 2016 the trail, bcborn brothers quickly found themselves lost. The seed for backroad mapbooks was planted in 1993.
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