Comments on: Quick Tip: Ziplock bag map cover https://pmags.com/quick-tip-ziplock-bag-map-cover Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Sun, 26 Nov 2023 02:57:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: grannyhiker https://pmags.com/quick-tip-ziplock-bag-map-cover#comment-586760 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 16:16:08 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11385#comment-586760 Plus, the zippered plastic bag plus regular paper map is a lot lighter than those coated papers of so-called waterproof maps. I’ve found that the coating rapidly breaks down at the folds so that after a few uses the “waterproof” map is no longer waterproof and is developing holes!

With my printer/scanner, I can make plain paper copies of the expensive “waterproof” maps which are lighter and leave the expensive original unscathed for future use.

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