Today Team Nookies went for what was to be another counter run. Sunshine. 30 degrees. The trail was a tough with 6" new, sticky snow. Fortunately snowmobiles condensed it a bit for us.
For a run to count toward a title, I need pictures of the start, turn around point and end. Since I am alone, I also need some landmarks to demonstrate distance.
My new camera is supposed to give me GPS coordinates of each picture and a distance log of where I went. In the ideal world, I would be able to stop, take off gloves, go through the menus for the correct settings, calibrate the compass and shoot. I must have missed a set-up step at the beginning of the trip. I did not get a GPS reading until this point a good 2.5 miles from the van.
The distance between the last picture and this one was 3.1km.
These two pictures were 5.3 km apart.
Last week I determined by comparing this cut bank with Google earth, that this point was 4.1 miles and an elevation gain of 763'. The dogs were still going strong so I decided to take them another 1/2 mile+. We successfully negotiated a turn without tangled dogs, me being drug or even falling off the sled. I went to take a picture and all I got was a grey screen. I could not even turn the camera off to re-boot it. As we flew back down the road, I decided to shoot random shots for GPS and see if I could get a scenic picture of the dogs running along the tree lined road framing Diamond Peak. I figured that even if the camera just took grey, it would at least save my GPS points. Wrong. So no tangle free turn-around or ending pictures. AARG! Oh well, it was a beautiful day to be on the trail and the downhill ride back to the van was exhilarating.
For a run to count toward a title, I need pictures of the start, turn around point and end. Since I am alone, I also need some landmarks to demonstrate distance.