Campground & lodging mileage from the establishment to the trail was added yesterday. Adventurer's Project's "Hiker Resources" web page had to be practically rebuilt to handle it. Today, I added a mileage chart of the Road Fork and Whipple Section - Buckeye (off-road)/ North Country National Scenic Trail. I won't touch the on-road, but that's much easier to use the "measurement" tool in the BTA's digital mapping on Avenza Maps there.
A link to my Generic Gear Inventory was created on the Hiker Resources web page.
Showing posts with label lodging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lodging. Show all posts
2018/12/26
2017/01/14
Log 2017011401
I now have enough navigational aids to route across that entire trail. The campgrounds and lodging are plotted in placemarks in Google Earth for Illinois on the South Mid-West Route. And I could have swore that I purchased Colorado's turn by turn guide and data before, but I can't find it. I know that I once had it because the western part of the state
I can't get the standalone application "shp2kml" to work. When I rolled my computer's clock back to 1/1/2011, it shut down my Internet access. And it kept giving me a bogus error every time I tried to convert to KML. I've been trying all night to covert the shapefiles of 9 more national forests along the American Discovery Trail. So, I purchased a license for "Shape2Earth" for $39.99. It could take them a couple hours to process my purchase, so I'll catch up with my email for a serial number this afternoon sometime.
When I get all those forests converted, I'll upload the entire pack so that prospective adventurists online can download and open them in Google Earth at home. I'll also link them in a post on the American Discovery Trail's Facebook Group. If the forest allows dispersed camping, it must take place on lands that the federal government actually owns.
I can't get the standalone application "shp2kml" to work. When I rolled my computer's clock back to 1/1/2011, it shut down my Internet access. And it kept giving me a bogus error every time I tried to convert to KML. I've been trying all night to covert the shapefiles of 9 more national forests along the American Discovery Trail. So, I purchased a license for "Shape2Earth" for $39.99. It could take them a couple hours to process my purchase, so I'll catch up with my email for a serial number this afternoon sometime.
When I get all those forests converted, I'll upload the entire pack so that prospective adventurists online can download and open them in Google Earth at home. I'll also link them in a post on the American Discovery Trail's Facebook Group. If the forest allows dispersed camping, it must take place on lands that the federal government actually owns.
2015/05/13
Log 2015051301
About economy lodging in the Whipple area. I've stayed at the Magnuson Hotel By The River in Marietta
and the hotel formerly known as the Magnuson Hotel By The Interstate.
The hotel in Marietta is more like a "motel" and the establishment in Williamstown, West Virginia is what most would expect from a hotel (having interior corridors), but a works in progress. Not to mention that they've changed brands recently. I've have yet to have any bad bugs with either, They're both inexpensive, they have continental breakfasts, but they're full of carbohydrates and hikers could use some fruit.
As the webmaster of the Ohio Transit Hikers Resource, I tend to be immersed in the logistics of getting hikers to and from the trail and amenities. Now, I have data on public parking areas, but as I know now, none of them are what I call "All Weather," which are plowed areas in the winter that are attached to a plowed road that are suitable for a front wheel drive (FWD) vehicle to get in and out of should the amount of snow along the Whipple Section ever exceed 3 inches.
But make no mistake about it, the Whipple Section can be snowshoed. I don't have a set of cross country skis, but maybe them as well, too.
and the hotel formerly known as the Magnuson Hotel By The Interstate.
The hotel in Marietta is more like a "motel" and the establishment in Williamstown, West Virginia is what most would expect from a hotel (having interior corridors), but a works in progress. Not to mention that they've changed brands recently. I've have yet to have any bad bugs with either, They're both inexpensive, they have continental breakfasts, but they're full of carbohydrates and hikers could use some fruit.
As the webmaster of the Ohio Transit Hikers Resource, I tend to be immersed in the logistics of getting hikers to and from the trail and amenities. Now, I have data on public parking areas, but as I know now, none of them are what I call "All Weather," which are plowed areas in the winter that are attached to a plowed road that are suitable for a front wheel drive (FWD) vehicle to get in and out of should the amount of snow along the Whipple Section ever exceed 3 inches.
But make no mistake about it, the Whipple Section can be snowshoed. I don't have a set of cross country skis, but maybe them as well, too.
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