High and Low Points: ADT - WV

The lowest point on the American Discovery Trail in the State of West Virginia is on the South Bank of the North Branch Potomac River at 541ft above sea level.  And the highest point is on the side of Cabin Mountain in the Dolly Sodds Wilderness of the Monongahela National Forest at 4,089ft above sea level.

ADT - Colorado Low & High Points

I just cleaned up my American Discovery Trail (ADT) - Colorado tracks enough to write about it's low and high points.

Low: 3447 - the CO/ NE State Line

High: 13296 - Argentine Pass (the highest point on the ADT)

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Based on the most current GPX download, I have the Superior Hiking Trail (North Country concurrent) coming in at 289.7 miles in length.   It's high point is 1,827ft above sea level in the Grand Portage State Forest, north of Jackson Lake.  The low point is about 606ft above sea level on the Duluth Waterfront.  It wasn't easy getting these.  Either Google Earth doesn't like Minnesota's arrowhead, there's something wrong with my application or their servers aren't acting right.

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Today, I charted the location of the high and low points of the Buckeye Trail's 26 sections.  Afterwards, I started making placemarks of intersections, whole miles and the high and low points on the Road Fork Section only.  The goal is to have them done for the entire circuit so that when I go route my mock thru and 10 miler hikers, I can have an easy mileage reference.  This is a lot of work.  There are times when I easily loose track of what mileage I'm going for.  This happens every time I go to produce a new edition to the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource (OTHR).  I guess it's just a lot of detail and information.

When going for whole miles, I have to delete a copy of the section's master track from it's terminator with the "Properties" menu up and set to the "Measurements" tab in Google Earth.  The track has little squares that are like anchors.  They pertain to the global coordinates in the track's XML (an Internet programming language) for every place the track turns, no matter how insignificant.  And if I'm not careful when doing as it gets close, the desired mileage might be between these anchors and I could overshoot it.  My Road Fork track has 60 of these markers.  One section down, 25 more to go.

Naming the low and high points could be useful for OTHR's guide.  But I plan on writing a page here on Blogger highlighting them in the future.  Since I've completed the successful merging of the BTA GIS/ GPS Data Depository into 26 sections, I can confirm that nothing on the circuit is higher than 50ft north of the oval in Burton of Geauga County on the west sidewalk of North Cheshire Street.  At 1,332 feet above sea level, I am certain that this is the highest point on the Buckeye Trail as of the date of this log.  Also verified it's elevation with a USGS topo map.