nice report, thanks for the update, those of us city folk think its nice to see a report from the peninsula occasionally. That trail work looks sweet, looks like theres some good miles to had out your way....wasn't the plan to take this trail all the way to the coast? I thought I saw the plan somewhere, could've been wrong though, just curious. Is it all flat or does it have some elevation gain/loss too, couldn't tell from your Google GPS?
More Adventure!
Went exploring on the Olympic Discovery Trail Adventure Route today. I was expecting some trees down but only one leaner to ride under, some small debris, and the trail was in good shape.
Sunny as I was loading up the car, and got a pic of the Boeing pilots out for a Sunday drive:
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Major improvement here, this used to turn into a ditch of water. I was told the Thursday volunteers did this, thank you for your hard work!
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Nearing the turn around point (for me!), started to cloud up:
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And found the new trail to bypass some gravel riding. Rode just past this bridge and the trail started to get soft so turned around and will do it another day:
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Here's what my ride looked like. The pins from right to left are where the pics were taken, respectively. Track was made from my camera GPS so be nice:
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Sunny as I was loading up the car, and got a pic of the Boeing pilots out for a Sunday drive:
Major improvement here, this used to turn into a ditch of water. I was told the Thursday volunteers did this, thank you for your hard work!
Nearing the turn around point (for me!), started to cloud up:
And found the new trail to bypass some gravel riding. Rode just past this bridge and the trail started to get soft so turned around and will do it another day:
Here's what my ride looked like. The pins from right to left are where the pics were taken, respectively. Track was made from my camera GPS so be nice:
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Definitely not flat...
I overlayed Milt's image in Google Earth; traced the track, and got this elevation profile. The last 1.8 miles (bottom image) kicks up at an average grade of 15% (that's steep, considering the profile at the mid-way point has a flat spot in it) there may be a little "hiking" going on (maybe not). Starting point of this ride was approximately at Ebb Tide Ln (48.10732 -123.56364) just after you cross the Elwha River on 112.
edited: This represents a partial track of the OTD Aventure Trail. More Informational can be found here
http://washburnemarine.com/ODT/ODTAdvAll.htm
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Thanks Mark! I didn't know you could do the elevation profile with Google Earth. My camera GPS only logs your position every 15 seconds, which I guess is good enough to show you where the pics were taken, if nothing else. From the pic, can you figure the altitude of the Dreamliner?MarkHL said:
I was on my singlespeed and no hiking was necessary, so how steep could it be?
At least the steep climbs are fairly short.
Olympic Discovery (Google Earth File Download)
Here's the entire trail in Google Earth. The KMZ file is below the picture and can be downloaded and viewed in Google Earth (Olympic Discovery.kmz).
File was traced from NW-Trails (www.switchbacks.com). Original data contributor is unknown to me.
Here's the entire trail in Google Earth. The KMZ file is below the picture and can be downloaded and viewed in Google Earth (Olympic Discovery.kmz).
File was traced from NW-Trails (www.switchbacks.com). Original data contributor is unknown to me.
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