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Thursday Aug 31, 2017 #
Hiking 45:00 [1] 4.5 km (10:00 / km)
Walking around the beginner trail route up at Larch Hills flagging it and getting some more data. A couple of gorgeous 200-400 year old trees that we are diverting the trail around a little bit.
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017 #
Note
Silver Slope map finished. Named for the two Silver Mines further up the hill (not on the map, but could eventually be on a map expansion - but unlikely), and the fact that the entire map (except for maybe 1 single contour and about 3 formlines) is entirely one hillside. Map details over here. This was something of a speed map, about 3 hours tracing contours, roads, powerlines, etc. and then 6 hours of fieldwork. I think it would be a good idea to use this map instead of Park Hill or South Canoe for the fall series since those maps were already used this spring. Or maybe even swap out Coyote Park or Bastion/Sullivan to give those maps a rest for an entire year.
Map Image:
Map Image:
3 AM
Mapping 6:02:05 10.41 km (34:46 / km) +758m 25:29 / km
Mapping below the Silver Mine on Mount Ida. One of the nicest forests in Salmon Arm, about 60% legitimately white forest, 35% light green slash or light green, and only around 5% darker greens. Unfortunately, the map is steep, and relatively bland and featureless. When I finish up the drafting, borders, and what not I'll post the map tonight.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017 #
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(rest day)
Spent all day today working on various map projects, and then the evening making jam (crab-apple jelly and plum jam).
Monday Aug 28, 2017 #
11 AM
Biking 54:32 [1] 9.22 km (5:55 / km) +165m 5:26 / km
Easy ride up/down logging roads along Wilson Creek above Roseberry with Lillian and Dad.
Sunday Aug 27, 2017 #
1 PM
Running 43:26 [1] 7.7 km (5:38 / km) +106m 5:17 / km
Run from New Denver up the highway to the Galena (Rail) Trail which I took back to Rosebery. Caught up with Lillian (who just did rail trail section), and ran with her until the beach at Rosebery. She walked straight back to the campground, while I did an extra loop.
Friday Aug 25, 2017 #
2 PM
Biking 1:55:00 9.13 km (12:35 / km) +436m 10:10 / km
Biking a new trail near Nakusp called Songbird Loop. Not particularily enoyable, no flow at all to the trail. Hard slog uphill (not so bad), traverse across with no flow (awful), roughly burmed downhill (decent), wagon road back to start spot (fast).
Thursday Aug 24, 2017 #
10 AM
Biking 1:29:52 [1] 15.04 km (5:58 / km) +293m 5:27 / km
Climb from the top of Butter above Rosebery to a new adaptive mountain biking trail called The Spine. Came down that (very dusty), and then down Butter. Nice downhill riding.
2 PM
Running 1:02:39 [1] 8.21 km (7:38 / km) +475m 5:55 / km
While Dad, Lillian, Simon, Mr. Holmes and his son Jake, rode down the K and S and Galena from Sandon to New Denver, I started running at three forks and went up to the K and S (a bit of brisk walking on some of the steeper sections), then out and back to Payne Bluff, before on to Sandon to pick up the car.
Tuesday Aug 22, 2017 #
2 AM
Mapping 5:29:15 10.66 km (30:54 / km) +429m 25:43 / km
More mapping at Mount MacPherson. Mapped further up the hillside up to the Main Loop (in winter) and currently a road on the west edge of the map, a distinct vegetation boundary on the north, and a major creek on the south. I have mapped up to the edge of about 300m of private land which is between the current map and the nordic centre lodge. The unfortunate part is that I have no contour data for that section, so will have to draw it manually, so decided to leave that for another day. If we ever host a major event on this map (which we totally should!), we will want to map this little chunk (the forest looks decent) just to connect nicely with the Stadium and parking area.
Off camping in New Denver starting tomorrow, so will be quiet on the log for the next while.
Off camping in New Denver starting tomorrow, so will be quiet on the log for the next while.
Monday Aug 21, 2017 #
11 AM
Mapping 5:40:53 9.61 km (35:28 / km) +297m 30:43 / km
Mapping at Mount MacPherson. Finished off the complex contour area, mapped an open hillside with a bit of rock and a number of contours and ridges with a few trails. Somewhat reminiscent of the Black Magic map in Whistler.
Sunday Aug 20, 2017 #
6 PM
Running 36:51 [2] 6.85 km (5:23 / km) +93m 5:02 / km
Run with Lillian at Little Mountain and Hillcrest neighborhoods. She was on the bike, and I was running... so a little hard to keep up.
Need to get out running way more than I am right now.
Need to get out running way more than I am right now.
Saturday Aug 19, 2017 #
Note
Spent (literally) all day working on a new map in Kamloops around the hospital, a bunch of government buildings, a park around a creek, and a steep hillside park. Some pretty cool shaped buildings, looks like decent sprint terrain, probably the third best that Kamloops has after TRU and Valleyview Bike Park.
Friday Aug 18, 2017 #
10 AM
Mapping 4:42:34 8.49 km (33:16 / km) +207m 29:39 / km
Mapping in Mount MacPherson. The area I was in is actually way more open and interesting than I thought it was going to be based on the Kartapaullatin. Nice open forest for a most of it (except a really thick, buggy marsh), and a decent sized area of complex contour detail that I'm struggled with a bit, still more of that the next time I come out.
Thursday Aug 17, 2017 #
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Didn't really get outside today... just sat behind the computer and mapped. Finished off the Downtown Revelstoke Expansion (now out to the highway for almost 2km squared mapped, or larger than the size of the Canoe Creek map!), and finished Riverside Park in Kamloops with the fieldwork I did yesterday. Also started on a new map in Kamloops around the Hospitial and park on the hill behind it. It will be a climb intensive map, but has a bunch of interesting buildings, fences and walls on it. Will be good for their evening events.
Also looking at squeezing in a small lSSOM forest map in Salmon Arm on the north side of Mount Ida behind the Geirre's Fruit and Cherry farm. The hillside is crown land (with decent parking along a road) and nice open forest with a moderate trail network. There are a number of interesting re-entrants, the only problem is that the hillside is quite steep, but we need another map close to town in Salmon Arm. We are having to re-use maps that we used in the spring, and seem to be kind of running our maps into the ground with over-use. The problem is that there aren't many good (or even halfway decend) places left to map in Salmon Arm. There is the Haney Heritage house, which would be a small map, but I think permissions would be a nightmare every time we used it if we managed to event get it once.
Also looking at squeezing in a small lSSOM forest map in Salmon Arm on the north side of Mount Ida behind the Geirre's Fruit and Cherry farm. The hillside is crown land (with decent parking along a road) and nice open forest with a moderate trail network. There are a number of interesting re-entrants, the only problem is that the hillside is quite steep, but we need another map close to town in Salmon Arm. We are having to re-use maps that we used in the spring, and seem to be kind of running our maps into the ground with over-use. The problem is that there aren't many good (or even halfway decend) places left to map in Salmon Arm. There is the Haney Heritage house, which would be a small map, but I think permissions would be a nightmare every time we used it if we managed to event get it once.
Wednesday Aug 16, 2017 #
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I was pretty sure I got this week's map without any clues, and the clues just seem to be confirming what I initially thought! We'll see if I turn out to be right.
http://weeklymap.org/052.html
Highlight below here to see my answer (it took a lot of playing around with html for me to figure this out... I need to take some computer programming course sometime):
Nuclear Explosion Locations.
http://weeklymap.org/052.html
Highlight below here to see my answer (it took a lot of playing around with html for me to figure this out... I need to take some computer programming course sometime):
Nuclear Explosion Locations.
8 AM
Mapping 4:30:00
Mapping Riverside Park in Kamloops, no smoke today! The map is actually slightly more interesting than I thought.
1 PM
Mapping 1:00:00
Mapping around the Mount Dufferin, finishing up the map update. I got through a couple of small hillsides from unofficial park entrances, then got to an official park entrance to see the big signs saying the parks are closed due to fire risk. So that cut that idea rather short. I guess that map will not be finished this fall.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017 #
10 AM
Mapping 4:30:00
Fielwork for expanding the downtown Revelstoke map out to the highway. Not as smokey in Revelstoke as Salmon Arm. Feeling pretty tired for some unknown reason.
Forgot my Garmin, not an issue for mapping, but I don't know how far I went today.
Forgot my Garmin, not an issue for mapping, but I don't know how far I went today.
Monday Aug 14, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering 35:51 [1] 3.27 km (10:59 / km) +155m 8:52 / km
Corridor down in Haines Creek with Rachel. She went clockwise, I went counter-clockwise.
First corridor I have ever done.
EDIT: apparently my maps aren't showing up for anyone besides me, so I'm testing things now...
Map:
First corridor I have ever done.
EDIT: apparently my maps aren't showing up for anyone besides me, so I'm testing things now...
Map:
Orienteering 37:14 [1] 3.03 km (12:16 / km) +150m 9:50 / km
A short course in Haines Creek with Rachel. We alternated controls, walked most of the uphills, and took the trails off the map. We also found a few things to change on the map... I'll also be updating the map to ISOM2017 sometime this fall.
Map:
Map:
Sunday Aug 13, 2017 #
3 PM
Running 1:25:45 [1] 8.0 km (10:43 / km) +605m 7:47 / km
So I started at the bottom of the silvermine trail (Ignore the line from home... I didn't use my Garmin I was testing using the bluetooth GPS with my phone and a new app), and was planning on GPSing all the trails along the bottom chunk of the mountain, and look at the forest to see if it was worth mapping for a weeknight event.
So the plan was to take the lowest trail on the way out, and then weave my way back filling in all the other trails. Interestingly, I found a trail I had never been on before, so I took it. It traversed (with a slow climb in general) towards the west along Mount Ida, but slowly petered out. So, rather than just turn around, I decided to bushwhack up the mountain until I hit the cutracross road. Turns out, in most places the forest is very nice, but there were a few sections of superthick deadfall.
Hit the road a little west of where I was expecting, never really knew where I was. Ran back along the road, and then down the second east-most silvermine dirt biking trail.
It is so awesome to be able to go running somewhere completely different all the time.
So the plan was to take the lowest trail on the way out, and then weave my way back filling in all the other trails. Interestingly, I found a trail I had never been on before, so I took it. It traversed (with a slow climb in general) towards the west along Mount Ida, but slowly petered out. So, rather than just turn around, I decided to bushwhack up the mountain until I hit the cutracross road. Turns out, in most places the forest is very nice, but there were a few sections of superthick deadfall.
Hit the road a little west of where I was expecting, never really knew where I was. Ran back along the road, and then down the second east-most silvermine dirt biking trail.
It is so awesome to be able to go running somewhere completely different all the time.
Saturday Aug 12, 2017 #
Strength 1:15:00 [1]
Friday Aug 11, 2017 #
Paddling 50:00 [1]
Out in eagle Bay. Might be my imagination, but I think the smoke cleared slightly today.
Thursday Aug 10, 2017 #
Strength 30:00 [1]
Wednesday Aug 9, 2017 #
Note
Just finished drafting the Downtown Revelstoke Map. Here is a sample:
Streching/Rolling 12:00 [0]
Bakker know has been a pain lately.
1 PM
Streching/Rolling 10:00 [0]
Tuesday Aug 8, 2017 #
9 AM
Mapping 6:58:03 16.28 km (25:41 / km) +40m 25:22 / km
Fieldwork for the downtown Revelstoke map. This includes the downtown core, a bunch of residential, the rec. centre, Centennial Park, and both the current schools, as well as an old one. Some nice chunks of map, and some pretty boring chunks of map. Unofruntately there is no contour data, so I am having to draw that all by hand... good news is that for the most part it is fairly flat, with most of the elevation changes occuring on one large embankment between the schools and the park.
Smoke wasn't quite as bad in Revelstoke as in Salmon Arm.
Smoke wasn't quite as bad in Revelstoke as in Salmon Arm.
Monday Aug 7, 2017 #
10 AM
Mapping 3:54:44 6.14 km (38:15 / km) +200m 32:54 / km
(sick)
Finishing up the south east corner of the Canoe Creek map. The map is finished! If Sage Stomp is in Salmon Arm next year (waiting on email from Jackie to find out...), then I think we should save the map for then. I think the map is a little too challenging for a weeknight event, so don't really want to use it this fall.
This is the first map that is in ISOM2017 that I have made/seen. Note the vegetation boundary in the green dashes, otherwise not too much is different.
Map sample:
Just about over this cold.
This is the first map that is in ISOM2017 that I have made/seen. Note the vegetation boundary in the green dashes, otherwise not too much is different.
Map sample:
Just about over this cold.
9 PM
Streching/Rolling 10:00 [0]
Friday Aug 4, 2017 #
10 AM
Mapping 2:36:15 5.88 km (26:33 / km) +118m 24:09 / km
Started doing a chunk of mapping today, the north edge and under the east powerline, but just didn't have the energy, it was way too hot, and way too smokey. Ditched early and came back home.
Thursday Aug 3, 2017 #
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(sick)
Didn't go out mapping today. Sore throat, off and on fever, headache, and a bit stuffed up. Plus, it's really incredibly smokey out.
Wednesday Aug 2, 2017 #
10 AM
Mapping 6:03:48 8.43 km (43:08 / km) +81m 41:10 / km
Lots and lots of rock today, and a fair bit of white forest. This is going to make an excellent middle map. Lots of features everywhere: water, rock, vegetation, you name it.
Tuesday Aug 1, 2017 #
Note
Watched Dunkirk with Dad this evening. Wow! Very powerful movie, never seen (or heard, as the case may be) a theatre that quiet. Even when people left, dead silence, nobody talking. Simply put, we are damn lucky where and when we live.
10 AM
Mapping 6:38:20 8.45 km (47:07 / km) +106m 44:21 / km
Mapping out in Canoe Creek again. Still smokey.
Found a honey tree today! Quite literally. I had stopped walking around to draw on the tablet a bit, heard a buzzing noise and looked up. Honeybees flying in and out of a 3 inch wide hole in a cedar tree about 10 feet above my head! First wild honeybee hive that I have ever seen.
Map is progressing fairly well, but where I was today (the south-western chunk) was on the green side of things for sure. More rock than the northern parts that I have mapped though. I now have the south and central east of the map to do, as well as a small northern strip along the golf course.
Almost ran out of battery power on the tablet today, going to have to drop my brightness a bit if I want to map for longer than 7 hours in a day.
Found a honey tree today! Quite literally. I had stopped walking around to draw on the tablet a bit, heard a buzzing noise and looked up. Honeybees flying in and out of a 3 inch wide hole in a cedar tree about 10 feet above my head! First wild honeybee hive that I have ever seen.
Map is progressing fairly well, but where I was today (the south-western chunk) was on the green side of things for sure. More rock than the northern parts that I have mapped though. I now have the south and central east of the map to do, as well as a small northern strip along the golf course.
Almost ran out of battery power on the tablet today, going to have to drop my brightness a bit if I want to map for longer than 7 hours in a day.