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Midsummer Magic Rally, Weaverville ...

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Couple of Google Earth screenshots of Bully Choop ...
finally figured out how to capture GE images ... :ride

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... the green line is the Trinity County boundary, I guess ...
one of the ways up is called County Line Road ... :party
... in the top pic, the long road is County Line ...
Bully Choop Mountain Road is just the road up to the
watchtower ...

... thanks to Hades Omega for supplying the
burning desire to have Google Earth route pics
in my ride reports ... :laughing
 
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Damn look at you gps geek!

I really need to get better with a gps and google maps. Looking for routes on google earth and trying to find them on my old forest service paper maps just seems like the hard way to do things anymore.
 
oobus said:
Damn look at you gps geek!

I really need to get better with a gps and google maps. Looking for routes on google earth and trying to find them on my old forest service paper maps just seems like the hard way to do things anymore.
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Hey Matt!

Haha, still a GPS Luddite ...
my wife downloaded the
Google Earth app on my tablet a
couple of years ago, and it finally
occured to me that I might be able
to simply find a place I'd been on GE and
take a screenshot, rather than
try to deal with a GPS track (which--deal
with tracks--I still can't do ...). :rolleyes

:laughing

Getting out on the bike and exploring
with an AAA map and a National Forest Map
still works best for me ... the AAA map
identifies the through-routes and then
I can find the through-routes on the
otherwise confusing NF maps ... :party

The trick for me recently has been to
sign up for a BARF rally, which forces me
out of my comfort zone ... worked very
well for this trip, helping me finally find
Toms Head, which I've been meaning
to do for years ... :thumbup

see you around
the campfire, :ride
-- John A
 
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I had the fun experience this weekend of flying over the
Mendocino National Forest at 30,000 feet and 500 mph.
It took us 15 minutes to cover the distance it took me
four
days
to cover on the KLR ... :laughing

This pic shows Stonyford, Indian Valley Reservoir and Clear Lake ...
 
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John! That's cool!

What kind of plane was that?
 
Cabrito said:
John! That's cool!

What kind of plane was that?
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dravnx said:
Airbus A320
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Thanks Jeff, I would never have remembered on my own,
but yes, I now recall from the boarding information that
it was an Airbus A320 ... :laughing

Impressed by how little of the
airplane you needed to see to be
able to id it ... :thumbup

It was super-cool Michael ... :ride
I got a great view of Lake Pillsbury
and Hull Mountain, but blew the pic ... :|
 
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I'm in the bizness.
Been working on airplanes for 38 years.
 
Just bit (or maybe took) the bullet and ordered a Garmin Montana with moto mount. I'll have 6+ weeks of harvest to figure this thing out while I'll be stuck at the office and not able to ride.

Now to figure out where to go first!

Matt

SFMCjohn said:
Hey Matt!

Haha, still a GPS Luddite ...
my wife downloaded the
Google Earth app on my tablet a
couple of years ago, and it finally
occured to me that I might be able
to simply find a place I'd been on GE and
take a screenshot, rather than
try to deal with a GPS track (which--deal
with tracks--I still can't do ...). :rolleyes

:laughing

Getting out on the bike and exploring
with an AAA map and a National Forest Map
still works best for me ... the AAA map
identifies the through-routes and then
I can find the through-routes on the
otherwise confusing NF maps ... :party

The trick for me recently has been to
sign up for a BARF rally, which forces me
out of my comfort zone ... worked very
well for this trip, helping me finally find
Toms Head, which I've been meaning
to do for years ... :thumbup

see you around
the campfire, :ride
-- John A
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When did the Airbus go to the drop down winglets? Looks like the winglets on a 737-900 to me.
 
oobus said:
Just bit (or maybe took) the bullet and ordered a Garmin Montana with moto mount. I'll have 6+ weeks of harvest to figure this thing out while I'll be stuck at the office and not able to ride.

Now to figure out where to go first!

Matt
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Well with OaklandF4i's gift and your purchase of the
Garmin Montana, I guess that's the one for
me ... $450, ouch ... :|
 
The 320-something has lower winglets. United does fly the 737-800 with the split scimitar winglets.
 
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Planegray should know about this plane nerd talk. :laughing
 
I confess. I work for Continental...I mean United.
 
Wingelets are rad! They also increase lift! :thumbup
 
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