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.

Uncle John had gotten kinda crippled up over the years but he sure enjoyed getting out and driving. He also bought most of the meals (what a good boy he was!). Every once in a while I'd see something I wanted to look at, so he would stop the truck and I'd get out and look through the binoculars for a while. After getting back in the truck at one point I was fussing with the maps and I said “why don't someone make a map that has this whole Unit on it?" and he replied "you complain about that every time we go hunting". So I decided right then and there that when we got back to Denver I was going to figure out a way to do something about that.

I spent the winter at the United States Geological Service (USGS) office off and on asking questions and formulating a plan. Later that spring a friend talked me into trying a digital approach that had the unique benefit of flushing about $10,000 down the drain with nothing to show for it. That was an expensive flush! When I finally did come up with a product, the maps were so ugly that when we actually made a map I was proud of, we sent all our customers from the first year one of our new maps at no charge.

We're still trying to follow that same philosophy at Rocky Mountain Huntin' Maps. We are still trying not to flush money down the drain and to give you the best product we can imagine.

If you have any ideas about what we can do to make our maps better please contact us.

Life's an adventure. Get a map, Edwin Watters