Trevor.

I live in Ukiah, California. The mountains south of me are the Sierra; the coast north of me is the redwoods. I hike, ski, camp, and spend more time outside than in.

I started making topographical maps because I wanted one of Half Dome on my own wall first. It turned out my hiking and my making intersected at one specific thing: the shape of the ground. Maps of trails I'd walked, in a form I could pick up.

"Maps are where my hiking and my making intersect."

The print is the start. A Bambu Labs printer in my workshop turns USGS terrain data into a raw piece of plastic — accurate to the meter, but bone-pale and a little flat. That's where the airbrush comes in. Every map gets hand-finished color: the granite gray of the high country, the fall yellows of the eastern Sierra, snow caps in winter, whatever fits the place. No two come out the same.

I work in medical-equipment maintenance by day; this is my evening craft. If you've got a trail you want made, send me a request — I'll quote it and we'll talk through what would make it yours.