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Route Cards & Grade Sheets

Tell us a route — walk it with us, trace it on a printout, or point at it on the map — and we draw it once. It's then on every flight of your land.

Two printed pieces come from that one line. The Route Card shows the route; the Grade Sheet measures it.

The Route Card

Each trail gets its own card: the route on your own imagery, with its stops badged 1, 2, 3 in the order you'd walk them. A legend lists each stop's name and note in the same order.

The card names the flight the route was drawn on, so it still says what it shows a year later.

A worksheet version adds a checkbox and a rule line per stop, for noting what you find on the walk.

The Grade Sheet

The Grade Sheet is where the measurements live, for the folder rather than the pocket. It has no map, since the card is the picture.

For each leg between stops it prints the grade, the cross-slope the leg traverses, and a published erosion-risk class from the recreation-ecology literature. That turns "the steep bit past the creek" into a number everyone reads the same way.

The sheet says where every figure came from: the elevation surface, its resolution, and the shortest leg it will measure. A leg too short to measure honestly is printed as a stated refusal, never a made-up number.

What it does not claim

Both pages print measurements, not judgments. The Grade Sheet says a leg averages 12%, but it will never tell you that leg is passable, safe, or right for your machine.

It can't know your equipment, your tires, your weather, or last night's rain. You know your machines; we print the numbers.

A route on this page is a path recorded over this property from our own mapping — a line to walk or fly, and nothing more. It is not a road, an easement, or a right of way, and it is not a statement that the ground it crosses is maintained, legally accessible, or safe to travel on foot or by vehicle. Conditions on the ground govern: check them before relying on a route.

This data is not a legal survey. Embry Solutions LLC does not perform land surveys. For boundary, subdivision, or title surveys, please consult a licensed Texas surveyor.

Card your own trails

Route Cards and Grade Sheets are included on request with any flight. Start with the Start Your Project wizard: a few plain questions, and a tailored quote comes back from the pilot who'll fly it.

Didn't find your answer? Contact us and we'll help you out.