Public Parking Along NCT/ FLT

There are over 228 parking areas on the North Country's concurrency with the Finger Lakes Trail.  Right now, I'm measuring it at just over 429 miles long.  It's an average of one public parking place for every 1.88 miles.  I have the mile markers placed, but at 228 just for parking, it's going to be slow backing the track down and getting mileages in the triple digits with decimal places sometimes in the ten thousandths.

And for those of you following my progress in trying to write a mock hike written simulation of the NCT, the saga goes on.  This is lengthy when you have to compile the data and do the mock hiker.  These logs are detailing almost every step of the way.

I'll step out of this log's character and tell you something hypothetical.  I've got some people working on something that might permit me to program smartphones and GPS's for other hikers in one sitting.  Stay tuned...

Dispersed Camping Waypoints - NCT NY

I'm pretty convinced that the GPS camping information is pretty much compiled for the North Country Trail in New York State.  The re-formating of the commercial campground and lodging waypoint labels sill has to be done.  I determined that I might be able to program a series of commands and keystrokes on my gaming keypad to speed that up.  There's a number of redundant waypoints that were a result of my search and save method that need to be eliminated.  But today, I'm focused on dispersed, or backcountry camping.

  I determined that when I start the mile markers, that I'll use the dispersed "on" and "off" signals that I devised as to where to put down a mile marker.  If I have markers there and a dispersed campsite on the mock hiker simulation occurs between them, I won't have measure very much from the last one.  In fact, I'll probably add to the markers as I do this.