Posted in adventure on Oct 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
Victoria and I headed out in the Jeep to checkout NF-6420. This is the access to “crater lake” near Red Mtn, which is apparently the route to get to the Hole-In-The-Wall aka Golden Tunnel mine. I had heard from some folks on the Internet that the road was washed out, and it certainly is. About [...]
Posted in adventure on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in adventure on Sep 25th, 2009 7 Comments »
Let’s get this right out of the way. According to the federal government, those people we pay to keep track of information like this, the mine is roughly at N47.772040° W121.442203°, located at about 4200 feet of elevation on Barring Mountain. If you are interested in going up there, I even made you a map. [...]