
Mountain Dynamics, the leading developer of digital GPS trail maps for ski resorts in North America, has announced that its SnowRanger GPS trail maps are now available for 64 top US and Canadian ski resorts with the release of its Northeast map set.
On November 1st 2005, Mountain Dynamics Inc. launched the availability of its first set of SnowRanger ski resort trail maps with 18 resorts in Colorado for Garmin GPSes.
Each digital map shows the resort's chairlifts, trails, lodges, terrain parks, roads and parking, tree cover and contours, and more, and can be used with any Garmin, and, since last year, Magellan eXplorist GPS that supports downloadable maps. Most importantly the GPS shows skiers or snowboarders exactly where they are on the map, where they have been, and where they are heading. SnowRanger helps the skier or snowboarder get the most out of each day, and can be a valuable aid to safety.
"It's like a car navigation system for the mountain," said Marcus Needham, Mountain Dynamics' President and CEO. "SnowRanger gives you a bird's eye view of the resort, won't shred like a paper map in the wind, and isn't affected by blinding white-outs."
SnowRanger 2007/08 version offer five sets of maps covering major ski areas in Colorado/New Mexico, California/Nevada, Utah/Wyoming, the Northeast, and the Northwest/Montana including nearly all of North America's top ski resorts such world-renowned destinations as
Aspen,
Deer Valley,
Jackson Hole,
Vail and
Whistler Blackcomb.
Garmin-compatible maps are available immediately from
http://www.mountaindynamics.com/as a download, on CD-ROM, or on SD and microSD memory cards. Magellan-compatible maps are available immediately on SD card from
www.mountaindynamics.com (for Triton, CrossoverGPS™, and eXplorist™), and will be available as downloads by November 15th from
http://www.magellangps.com/. SnowRanger trail map data are also available in SportsDo's Ski Resort Location Packs for GPS-enabled mobile phones, at
http://www.sportsdo.net/. The program that copies the maps onto the GPS (either from CD-ROM or from a download from this site) is only available for Windows.
You can see the resort list and a preview of their GPS map on the Mountain Dynamics website.