Specializing in unusual, remote, or otherwise fascinating applications of GIS technology
GPS at work - Charkini - Bolivian Andes 17,648'
The Lost Silver Trail of Mexico
The Colorado Trail 2008 Map Book
The Colorado Trail Mapping Project
Cataract Ridge Re-route - Segments 23 and 24 of The Colorado Trail
The Tahoe Rim Trail Mapping Project
A free map of the Durango Nordic Center
Details about our equipment and about GPS in general
Bear Creek Survey Service is a small mapping and consulting company based out of Durango, Colorado. We have worked on projects, and provided technical assistance to surveyors in many remote places around the world, including Mexico, Central America, South America, North America, Europe, Bolivia, Turkmenistan, Central Russia, Siberian Russia, and the Indian Himalayas.
Bear Creek has completed trail mapping projects for two famous western trails. In 2000, we completed the GPS mapping of the 487 miles long Colorado Trail. This project resulted in the most extraordinarily detailed and accurate trail maps ever developed of a long trail. The work was repeated in 2005 in a project that included a complete rewrite of the guidebook and databook. In 2001, we completed a similar project for the Tahoe Rim Trail (165 miles), encircling Lake Tahoe in Nevada and California. In both instances, a CD map product was developed containing all the USGS topographic maps showing the respective official routes.
In 2004 we helped re-discover and map the old Silver Trail from the bottom of Copper Canyon, Mexico to the site of the original stagecoach stop at Carachic, some 140 miles distant. We returned in 2005 and hiked the trail, gathering additional gps data for the guide book.
In 2005 we hiked The Colorado Trail again and wrote a detailed description of the trail for the new 7th edition guidebook. We re-surveyed the trail at that time with a Thales MobileMapper.
In 2007 we hiked The Colorado Trail again to make a general condition survey of the trail, and to update several new reroutes completed since the last survey in 2005. Once again, a MobileMapper was used to update the maps. The Colorado Trail 2008 Map Book was developed in the following months.
Also developed in 2007 was the first ever guidebook for The Lost Silver Trail of Mexico.
Books authored or co-authored: (Click on a book image for more information)
Guidebook
Colorado
Trail Maps 
Mexico Silver trail
(C) 2008 by Bear Creek Survey Service. All material on this website is the property of Bear Creek Survey Service and may not be copied or used in any manner without express written permission.
