Today, I went to my brother's house and hitched my Harbor Freight & Tools 4x8 Utility Hauling Trailer. Since I had the car's side of the wiring harness uncapped and exposed to the elements since October, one of it's ports was corroded and I was afraid that it would not make contact with one of the trailer's connections. But it did and everything works just like it should.
I drove over to Storage B today and started moving things over to my new storage location at in a relative's shed. Considering that I'll be on the road with most of that equipment, there won't be too much that will be stored there. And that which remains shouldn't be there too long.
One of the first things that I plan on doing once I'm in the Marietta area is getting another storage unit, this time smaller. All I need it for is to stage my gear so that I don't have to transport all of it, which all of that really taxes the weight capacities (in cab and the hitch) on my 2008 Chevy HHR LS. My plan is to sleep in The Cramper for at least a month before I rent a house or apartment in the area.
I now have a 30.3gal (121.1qt) Yeti Tundra 125 bear resistant cooler that I purchased from Cabellas in Tridelphia, West Virginia for $582 out the door. I've always known that I've needed this, but it's price has always been cost prohibitive. Nonetheless, I believe that it's a 20qt improvement over my previous Coleman cooler, which frequently ran out of space, it never sealed right, the screws stripped days after I bought it and it was never bear proof.
Years ago, the Whipple Section - Buckeye/ North Country National Scenic Trail was off-road between Cow Run Road and the Hills - Hildreth Covered Bridge. But enough property was purchased by one owner to necessitate shutting down a township road in the final leg that the trail was dependent on. As a result, the BT was re-routed to the north and according to Whipple's map, North Country remains rated on a truncated path to the Lane Farm Campground in the Wayne National Forest - Marietta Unit via a ford across the Little Muskingum River. I now have authorization to reestablish that footpath and white blaze it's route.
When you look at a national forest on a map, that which I call the "green blob" is it's administrative boundary. What most people don't know is that there's private property in there. But I have Global Imaging System (GIS) shapefile data displaying what the federal government actually owns. Without a guide, the spur to Lane Farm (as displayed on the map) is about 2 1/2 miles long. We have federal property well before that where hikers can disperse camp. This is where in the forest, camping is permitted 150 feet from the trail. So, with the BT/ NCT going in a new direction, the only thing I could see Lane being much good for is parking and campers.
But the problem with the ford is that governmental agencies aren't probing the Little Muskingum's water temperatures and publishing them in real time to Internet. But the nearest information that I can currently find on water temperature is the RECR8 Ohio River Report for the Meldahl Segment near Cincinnati. The more local reports only cover things like the flood stage, which I'm not too particularly concerned with considering that the river can be seen from multiple point on the spur and rather early along it. In person, it's the first thing that I'd recommend looking at. 2 1/2 miles is a long way to go to find out that it's not safe to ford. And this really only affects hikers in the clockwise/ westbound direction. According to Whipple's 10/2010 map, they're routed on the edge of that river about 5 miles prior to the Lane Spur (unofficial, that's my own name for it). On this map, the spur is marked in red diamonds.
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2015/03/29
2015/03/18
Log 2015031801
I purchased a Roughneck plastic container for my truing stand. It's twice as big for what I need it for and I'm not sure about where I'm store it yet?
Recently, I've had my lower back problem reemerge. But I've noticed that it gets better when I hike or workout. It's bizarre that this is the effect considering the stress that I have to put on it to do this. My guess is that that my entire body has not been getting adequate exercise when I'm at home and I'm loosing muscle mass unevenly, causing some of the lessening strands to stretch around others that have yet to compensate. All I know is that it works better than 800mg Tylenol.
On the 15th & 16th, I made my initial inspection of Whipple Section - Buckeye Trail's off-road (North Country National Scenic Trail concurrent). I wanted to do it early next month, but I monitor the severe weather conditions from the desk and weeks of areal flood watches and warnings, coupled with National Forest Service (NFS) campground closures prompted me to do it early.
Whipple's low point is at 604ft along the Little Muskingum River at a position that is roughly 7 miles north of the Ohio River. The river's level near the SE tip of Buckley Island is 584ft above sea level there and at the mouth of the Little Muskingum in Marietta of Washington County as well. I wish that I knew how many miles upstream our low point it, but it could be about 7 or 8? Considering how far in land the Little Muskingum goes before it reaches BT/ NCT, I'm surprised at just how little it gains in that short amount of distance.
The good news is that while along the Little Muskingum, Whipple's sand surface was on a top of a ledge, some 5 to 7ft from the bloated river. And it would really take a lot for a flooded river to overtake it, like a 200 year flood or more.
Whipple is passable at the moment, in fact, most people can reach average speeds on it. With that being said, I accounted for 145 deficiencies in Whipple's 13.59 miles of off-road in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne National Forest. Most of them are downed trees of 18" of less that are resting entirely on the trail's surface. We have a sawyer course coming up in May and I intend to be there. But without a sawyer, it would take over 24 days per person to clear those obstructions with a hand saw. However, my experience with a chainsaw suggests that it won't get much faster.
Recently, I've had my lower back problem reemerge. But I've noticed that it gets better when I hike or workout. It's bizarre that this is the effect considering the stress that I have to put on it to do this. My guess is that that my entire body has not been getting adequate exercise when I'm at home and I'm loosing muscle mass unevenly, causing some of the lessening strands to stretch around others that have yet to compensate. All I know is that it works better than 800mg Tylenol.
On the 15th & 16th, I made my initial inspection of Whipple Section - Buckeye Trail's off-road (North Country National Scenic Trail concurrent). I wanted to do it early next month, but I monitor the severe weather conditions from the desk and weeks of areal flood watches and warnings, coupled with National Forest Service (NFS) campground closures prompted me to do it early.
Whipple's low point is at 604ft along the Little Muskingum River at a position that is roughly 7 miles north of the Ohio River. The river's level near the SE tip of Buckley Island is 584ft above sea level there and at the mouth of the Little Muskingum in Marietta of Washington County as well. I wish that I knew how many miles upstream our low point it, but it could be about 7 or 8? Considering how far in land the Little Muskingum goes before it reaches BT/ NCT, I'm surprised at just how little it gains in that short amount of distance.
The good news is that while along the Little Muskingum, Whipple's sand surface was on a top of a ledge, some 5 to 7ft from the bloated river. And it would really take a lot for a flooded river to overtake it, like a 200 year flood or more.
Whipple is passable at the moment, in fact, most people can reach average speeds on it. With that being said, I accounted for 145 deficiencies in Whipple's 13.59 miles of off-road in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne National Forest. Most of them are downed trees of 18" of less that are resting entirely on the trail's surface. We have a sawyer course coming up in May and I intend to be there. But without a sawyer, it would take over 24 days per person to clear those obstructions with a hand saw. However, my experience with a chainsaw suggests that it won't get much faster.
2015/03/14
Log 2015031401
A new, Western Digital 2 terabyte external hard disk drive was purchased from Micro Center in Mayfield Heights of Cuyahoga County for about $105 out the door today. I also went to Walmart in University Heights and purchased some ditty bags to encase my truing stand, but they were all too small. My laundry is in the process of being done and because my heaping mound has been moved elsewhere. So the floor in my dwelling is now free to conduct an inventory.
But I do my car repairs at a relatives house and that space may be needed soon. And these days, we've had highs in the 40°F's and 50°F's. But I'm not like other people in NE Ohio and I'm erring on the side of caution... this is just a fluke. There's a tear in the arm pit of my -20°F parka and my patches still have yet to be glued and sewn on my 12°F convertible coat, which has not been worn since it was washed last. I'll need that convertible coat if the high temperature goes below 37°F.
I just received notice today that flooding on the Little Muskingum River has caused the National Forest Service to close the Lane Farm Campground in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne National Forest, which is off of an NCNST rated side trail, marked in Whipple Section's map. Whipple's low point is close to there and without being there to know, it's possible that it might be flooded?
But I do my car repairs at a relatives house and that space may be needed soon. And these days, we've had highs in the 40°F's and 50°F's. But I'm not like other people in NE Ohio and I'm erring on the side of caution... this is just a fluke. There's a tear in the arm pit of my -20°F parka and my patches still have yet to be glued and sewn on my 12°F convertible coat, which has not been worn since it was washed last. I'll need that convertible coat if the high temperature goes below 37°F.
I just received notice today that flooding on the Little Muskingum River has caused the National Forest Service to close the Lane Farm Campground in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne National Forest, which is off of an NCNST rated side trail, marked in Whipple Section's map. Whipple's low point is close to there and without being there to know, it's possible that it might be flooded?
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