REI membership: is it worth it?

[A-Polly]

freeradical wrote:
I wish they still carried 1:24K USGS topos.

There's no REI near me, but I have happy memories of buying quads from a local bookstore, now gone. They stored maps in beautiful wooden drawers. Fortunately, we can get USGS topos from here:
https://store.usgs.gov/maps
Use the search button for 7.5-minute maps, those are the 1:24,000 topos. Download PDF for FREE, pay $ for paper. The USGS store has improved a lot, downloading is quick and easy.
What's nice is that both old and new maps are available. For instance, you can get the San Francisco North quad from 1947 and 2015, plus the versions in between. Lots of other sorts of maps, too!