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- December 20th, 2021, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Maps and Navigation
- Topic: Best way to clean up GPS tracks?
- Replies: 20
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Re: Best way to clean up GPS tracks?
I once had a long and useless discussion with Gaia about their track recording intervals. I included actual repeatable problems, data, track recordings, and data histograms showing their app was pairing points very close to each other then going 10 meters between the pairs. It was user error accordi...
- December 18th, 2021, 11:41 pm
- Forum: Maps and Navigation
- Topic: Best way to clean up GPS tracks?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 76783
Re: Best way to clean up GPS tracks?
Interestingly Garmin Basecamp is really easy and useful for many things including this. You can adjust elevation anomalies, geometry, attach photos to the track. I'm a GIS professional and I find Basecamp to sometimes be easier than all the other tools I have access too. JOSM and QGIS work too but t...
- September 13th, 2021, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: The worlds largest Christmas Trees. Goat Marsh - Toutle Trail - Red Rock pass
- Replies: 5
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Re: The worlds largest Christmas Trees. Goat Marsh - Toutle Trail - Red Rock pass
I've only seen the small stand on the way up to Ape Canyon / Plains of Abraham. One thing I've noticed is that there are very few large downed trees and all of the trees are about the same age. I would expect at some point these things fall and it takes another few hundred years for them to turn to ...
- August 9th, 2021, 11:24 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Mill Creek Ancient Forest - visiting Old Growth imperiled by WA DNR timber sale
- Replies: 3
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Re: Mill Creek Ancient Forest - visiting Old Growth imperiled by WA DNR timber sale
The other thing I'm wondering about though is are these the 'lower quality' habitat sites they are allowed to log with their HCP. I don't know how that all worked out in the end but timber sales in this area should have on-the-ground habitat assessments to count murrelet nesting platforms regardless...
- August 9th, 2021, 11:18 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Mill Creek Ancient Forest - visiting Old Growth imperiled by WA DNR timber sale
- Replies: 3
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Re: Mill Creek Ancient Forest - visiting Old Growth imperiled by WA DNR timber sale
I spent a couple summers doing marbled murrelet surveys in this area. It's too bad they just didn't seem to be around. I think murrelets are the best chance to stop timber sales but I don't think they use this area. The habitat model the DNR was using at the time was absolutely flawed and WDFW knows...
- June 25th, 2021, 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
- Replies: 20
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Re: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
Well said Charley, these are all things I wanted to say but didn't have the energy to put it out there so I went sarcastic :D I would add that there should be no sense of loss to having bikes on gravel roads, far less impact that motor vehicles and there's a freaking road there already, the road rui...
- June 22nd, 2021, 7:35 am
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4975
- June 21st, 2021, 11:05 pm
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4975
Re: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
Yes I agree with Chip, we should close more gravel roads to cars during peak season and let the bikes have them.
- June 21st, 2021, 9:09 am
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4975
Re: Bicycles on gravel road to Grassy Knoll 6-19-21
I can't see how anyone would think that dozens of bikes going down a road built for large trucks to extract timber from the forests would be any kind of problem. The irony of anyone thinking that biking down logging roads is a problem when the OP was driving a gas powered vehicle down this same road...
- May 9th, 2021, 9:27 am
- Forum: Off-trail Trip Reports & Lost Trails
- Topic: Devils Staircase Wilderness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2666