This is a guest post from Craig Boline, Huntinmaps.com's technical lead.

Recently I received a question asking if we had a paper map of Colorado game management unit 20 (near Estes Park, CO). After doing some digging and searching it seems that is an area our paper maps don't cover. Not wanting to disappoint the customer, I wrote this simple howto on using the Hunt Planner to create a much better map.

Answer: We started printing our maps on paper because that is what maps should be printed on. Keep reading below for some background on why I say this. You might find some new ways to use a paper map.

If you want to put meat in the freezer and you don't care if you have a big set of horns to go along with it, you should consider hunting in a late season elk hunt.

After a quick count, and only looking at half the elk units, I counted over 50 different seasons and units to hunt. All run more than one month, and some of the seasons run from August to January.

Roscoe Riddle was an original. I don't remember where he was originally from, but he had lived around Ohio City, Colorado for about 300 years when we started hanging around there in '68. He had been a hard rock miner, lumber jack, cowboy, ladies man (at least until his teeth were gone), and his last job was leaning on a shovel and watching "hippie” chicks for the county.

Late December of 1994 found me bouncing around in the cab of Uncle John's pickup. I had three maps spread out on my lap, and was reading Colorado's written legal description of hunting unit #22 "Piceance Creek" area, trying not to get out of our hunting unit.

Many of you have hunted for years, and it is this natural thing that happens like squirrels burying nuts. We just do it, and our seasonal clock runs without our thinking--it just does it. We were introduced to hunting by our fathers or uncles, or maybe a friend's dad who took us under his wings, and helped awaken us to the power of the outdoors.