Are you having a problem printing the pages on UtahMountainBiking.com?

Step 1:  Go to the page you want to print.

Step 2:  Click your mouse somewhere in that page (or use the scrollbar of the page).

Step 3:  Click your "Print" icon.

Explanation:  UtahMountainBiking.com now uses "frames" to keep menu information on your screen at all times, in a way that it doesn't have to be downloaded with every single page. This makes navigation of the web site easier, and makes pages display much faster. Our pages may have up to three frames. There's a frame for the top navigation banner, a frame for the section menu choices on the left, and another frame for the page you see displayed. Each page has its own html source code, in a separate file.

When you tell your browser to print a page, it doesn't send the stuff you see on-screen directly (unchanged pixel-by-pixel) to the printer. Instead, it reconstructs the page to fit on your paper, using the source html code. In a page that has multiple html source files (multiple frames), your browser assumes you want to print the file that's active. That is, it prints the html file corresponding to the frame on which you last clicked. If the last thing you clicked on was a choice in the section menu, your printer will spit out the section menu, not the page you selected. Got that?

So, go to the trail page or repair page you want to reproduce on paper. Then just click anywhere in that page to "activate" it. Then, click on the Print icon, or select Print from the File menu. If you're using Netscape, you can use Print Preview to see what the printed page will look like. This lets you adjust your margins (helps keep photos and text together) before you commit to paper.

Problems with photos and maps:  Our one-page trail guides use "sized" photos and maps. Typically, the photo is shown so that two pixels of photo are shown on a single pixel of screen. That way, the important information will fit on one page. If your web browser and printer are working correctly, the photos will be "scaled" to the appropriate size as they are fed to the printer. If information is "spilling over" onto a second page, if photos are huge, or if text is printed over a photo, you have a problem. Here's a solution: Right-click in the page to get your browser's pop-up menu. Save the entire web page to your hard drive, in a directory where you edit documents. Import the file into page-creation program (a word-processor that accepts photos). Adjust photo size if necessary. Now print the page.

Thanks!