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Robert Kinzebach became hooked on back country hiking during high school in Wenatchee. This lifelong interest was enhanced by the formation of a map business in the 1970s that continued for over 20 years. During this period high quality USGS topo maps were updated infrequently and were relatively expensive. Pic-Tour marketing was primarily by word of mouth, supplemented by advertisements in Pack & Paddle and Signpost magazines, and in the Wenatchee World newspaper. The Mountaineers map collection includes approximately 50 Pic-Tour maps, most of which are those published in the 1980s and 1990s.
Details of the collection are available here
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The Mountaineer's Pic-Tour Guide maps were donated to the archive in 2017 by Carl Mealy representing the Boy Scouts. Carl wrote
Robert Kinzebach was an avid hiker and photographer in the Pacific Northwest. He documented his hikes in detail. He authored and published hiking information as Pic-Tour guides and maps in the 1970's and 80's. In total, he produced over 50 guides and maps. He passed away in 1996.
His collection was donated to scouts. For some maps and guides there were many copies, for others few to none. Many copies of the guides and maps were distributed. After several years. the map copies that remained were put into storage. We recently rediscovered the collection. Copies still exist for about two-thirds of what was originally published.
The Kinzebach items have been groups into 5 categories. The original maps did not have a consistent naming or numbering scheme so this provides a way to organize them into groups by geography.
