The 88 mile trip for the parking search along Road Fork Section on The Wilderness Loop is only 4 hours long. I've got all day Monday, so I expanded the search to 223.3 miles to include other areas that I'm promoting. If I have all day and use some of the night hours, too, I might be able to pull this off.
My trail promotion area ultimately is between existing Buckeye Trail Association chapters, covering from the intersection of the Belle Valley and Road Fork Sections along the main loop to the east boundary of the Village of Chesterhill in Morgan County, the rest of The Wilderness Loop, 41 miles of the American Discovery Trail (ADT) - West Virginia and 32 miles of it's Ohio/ Kentucky that's independent of the Buckeye Trail (BT) concurrency in Southeast Ohio.
On ADT, I'm looking for 4 volunteers, 2 for each state to help them staff their state committees and then just local trail exposure.
The goals on the BT side are trail adopters and then general promotion.
Finally, assembling a chapter, or 3rd party association.
Showing posts with label parking areas - the wilderness loop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parking areas - the wilderness loop. Show all posts
2017/04/08
2015/04/05
Log 2015040501
Known parking areas and post offices for The Wilderness Loop of the Buckeye Trail (North Country concurrent partially) were plotted on Google Earth today. Parking which is not known are Road Fork Section's portion of the Wayne National Forest and Ales Run State Wildlife Area. They need to be searched in person and if Road Fork were given an 8 mile corridor, anything that comes up in Ales Run is probably on the edge if it.
I attempted to use my topo maps today to plot the location of the streams which Whipple crosses. It's just that my USGS Topo overlay maps are not detailed enough to get everyone for sure. Basically, I need to be able to see almost every single ditch that gets wet. So, during the maintenance cycle this year, the off-road will have to be cataloged on foot with a GPS. I'm not sure if the on-road can be done by car. I hope so. But, with being behind windows and it's speed, it might be possible to miss a few. I'm not completely sure about what I'm going to do with the data once I get it all?
I attempted to use my topo maps today to plot the location of the streams which Whipple crosses. It's just that my USGS Topo overlay maps are not detailed enough to get everyone for sure. Basically, I need to be able to see almost every single ditch that gets wet. So, during the maintenance cycle this year, the off-road will have to be cataloged on foot with a GPS. I'm not sure if the on-road can be done by car. I hope so. But, with being behind windows and it's speed, it might be possible to miss a few. I'm not completely sure about what I'm going to do with the data once I get it all?
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