Log 2016091701

The Robot is still up and running, but I put off some tasks just to use Google Earth and Maps.  Now, I'm starting to catch up with them.  The lastest is moving all of my documents, videos and music from the orginal install directory to where it needs to be on another hard disk.  That means that my Map Repository is in the process of moving.

The Robot has a 4 hard disk system that is on two controller cards, one being the motherboard.  If they were on just one, I believe that I would be able to create something that would view them all as one hard disk and spread the load of the files evenly amongst them.  But since their on two, I'm doing the distribution manually to keep the system running faster.  Basically drive C is only used for the operating system and a number of essential applications.  This is so if needed, the system could run with the other three unplugged and still boot.  That's necessary because hard disk drives fail and chances are it won't be the main one.

The Robot is a custom built computer system that's taken a lot of static shock in the last 6 years.  When that happens, you can expect hardware failure to occur some time.

I've been in communication with a prospective Whipple Section - Buckeye/ North Country Trail hiker the past two days.  We have a collapsed trail in between Pts. 02 - 03 that's unsafe to pass that BTA doesn't have a trail alert for.  The problem in getting to Pt. 03 is Big Run Rd that off of Archer's Fork Rd/ C14 in Independence Township of Washington County.

Coming from the North Country/ Buckeye Trailhead at C9 and Archer's Fork Rd, Big Run Rd is 2.3 miles NW.  As Archer's Fork (body of water) is along the west and south side of the road, Big Run will have the only concrete bridge crossing it, but it's unsigned.  Once across, there are immediately what looks three drives.  The one to the south is Big Run Rd, but it may not look like one.  And the hikers aren't able to see it enter the treeline from the bridge, so they may think that it's private property.  It's not.  They should follow it parallel to the south treeline and when they do, they'll see it enter the woods.  Once thing to note is that there's not much on Big Run Rd.  It's traffic consists of the immediate resident, NFS naturalists, NFS and BTA maintainers and perhaps one oil well that I'm not sure is even working?

That turn from Archer's Fork Rd to Big Run Rd is even tricky for me.  I've never done it without a GPS.  With that in mind, the hiker might want to proceed W on County Rd 9/ C9 and pick up where the the trail is temporarily on that road.