Thursday, December 29, 2016

2017 Homework One: Collect Route Information

Purpose

  • Collect route information from summitpost, peakbagger, nwhikers.net, WTA, and other sources (google is your best friend) so that we could plan the trip accordingly
  • Search for route GPS track files from summitpost, peakbagger, and other places
  • Learn how to create a new route based on existing GPS tracks or existing trails using caltopo.
  • Learn how to export the route in caltopo into a GPS file and import it to a GPS app such as Gaia GPS or alltrails for GPS navigation.
  • Print  topo maps  from caltopo so that we could use them together with compass to practice navigation. You could overlap multiple small maps into a big one. Make sure that you could find at least three neighboring peaks on the big map to locate a position on the route by triangulation.

 Target Mounatins

  1. Revolution Peak (Middle fork Snoqualmie)
  2. Green Mountain (Middle fork Snoqualmie) (Assigned)
  3. Bessemer Mountain (Middle fork Snoqualmie) (Assigned)
  4. Quartz Mountain (Middle fork Snoqualmie) (Assigned)
  5. Preacher Mountain (Middle fork snoqualmie)
  6. Surprise Mountain (Alpine lakes wilderness) (Assigned)
  7. Mount Price (Alpine lakes wilderness) (Assigned)
  8. Big Snow Mountain (Alpine lakes wilderness)
  9. Dirtyface Peak (Highway 2) (Assigned)
  10. Arrowhead Mountain (Highway 2)
  11. Rock Mountain (Highway 2)  (Assigned)
  12. Oakes Peak (North Cascades) (Assigned)
  13. Ruth Mountain (North Cascades)
  14. Ruby mountain (NW/W ridge) (North Cascades)

Template

Mountain Information:

  • Name: Mountain Name
  • Region:  Olympic National Forrest, North Cascades, Central Cascades, South Cascades
  • Summit Elevation: search summitpost
  • SummitPost Link: search summitpost
  • Peakbagger Link: search peakbagger
  • WTA Link:(if any) search WTA

Driving Directions:

  • Trailhead: trailhead name from summitpost or WTA
  • Co-ordinates: try to find from WTA site or google map if possible
  • Address:  search trailhead name on google map to find out
  • Elevation:   summitpost or WTA
  • Pass:  summitpost or WTA
  • Directions: summitpost or WTA

Route Information: (Choose the easiest one or the winter route if there are multiple routes)

Misc 

  • Videos: youtube or vim
  • Other Links: other related links from Google.
  • Notes: special notes that you want team to be aware of
  • Topo maps: (print out from caltopo if you could)

Example

Mountain Information:

Driving Directions:

  • Trailhead:  Lena Lake Trailhead
  • Co-ordinates: 47.5997, -123.1512
  • Address:  N Hamma Hamma Rd, Hoodsport, WA 98548
  • Elevation:  685 ft
  • Pass:  Northwest Forest Pass
  • Directions: (From WTA) "From Hoodsport, drive travel north on Hwy 101 for 14 miles. Make a left onto Hamma Hamma River Road at milepost 318. Continue for 7.5 paved miles to the trailhead. A privy is available at the large trailhead, that can accomodate 30 cars. Keep in mind that the parking flanks an active road, so if you must park across the road from the trailhead, look both ways before crossing!"

Route Information:

Misc 

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