Adventioneering

Liz noticed that the Steven’s Pass Webcams are showing snow. Yay!

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Little bit of an update. We’ve realized that GC seems to have good (sort of) coordinate information but the basemaps don’t exactly line up, either because of a projection or some other problem. This can lead to a misunderstanding as to the actual lat/longs for the coordinates (if you try to match the waypoint off [...]

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I put off writing about my Burning Man trip because I’ve been in the middle of moving.
I loaded up early Friday morning and after a couple of last last minute errands, I was on the road by 9:30. I made excellent time all the way to New Mexico where I had my first adventure of [...]

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A lot has been said about the Naches trail, which has been positioned to me as the “rubicon of the northwest”. Naches is not the Rubicon of the anywhere, and while it’s a great area overall and the drive is pleasant, it would require weather conditions to make it more than an easy drive over. [...]

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I have updated the adventioneering KML file with a few grillion mine and other natural resource waypoints. Seriously, like 2MB of them. Thousands and thousands. Happy hunting!
While I am at it, here is a projection up the valley at the yellow jacket mine. Depending on who you believe, the mystery GT mine might be further [...]

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Someone PM’d me to let me know that the coordinates I had from the USGS for the Golden Tunnel mine are wrong, and that they believe the mine (at least one people have found) to be south of HWY 2 upstream from the yellow jacket mine.
I start to wonder if anybody actually found the GT [...]

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Introduction
One of the things we often deal with in our field work is taking photographs and recording the positions of those photographs. In the past, one of the common ways to do this was to carry a handheld GPS and write down the locations of photos, or to take waypoints and mark which photographs belong [...]

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Cougar mountain is still there, in case anyone is wondering, and made for a pleasant and quick afternoon hike. Seeing people there with the dogs made us miss Lux.

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[ August 21, 2009 to September 7, 2009. ]

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[ September 26, 2009; ]

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