{"id":389,"date":"2007-04-07T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2007\/04\/07\/a-very-good-friday\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T20:15:49","slug":"a-very-good-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/a-very-good-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A very Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, being Good Friday, I didn’t have to work. So I went on a hike up at the Opal Creek Wilderness<\/a>. It’s was a beautiful day–around mid 70’s up in the mountains. My guidebook said the trail was a 7 mile out and back. My GPS said 6.6 when I got back to the car. But then the actual GPS track said 8.3 miles. I think the track is bigger because we walked around a bit more, but also because I didn’t turn off tracking when we stopped for lengths of time (such as at the end of the trail). I think the GPS “wanders” when it’s not moving. So I guess I’ll just call it 7 miles.<\/p>\n

Here’s a KMZ file that you can open with Google Earth<\/a>. The file will display the route I walked and it has pictures from the hike that are geocoded into the track. If you don’t have Google Earth (or don’t want to download it), here’s the same stuff in Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I successfully did this once before<\/a>, but it’s been a while so I had to relearn all the steps. Just to fill up the outboard brain with more knowledge, here are the basic steps I followed (mac-centric, but I’ve seen similar stuff for PC…hint: RoboGeo<\/a>)<\/em>:<\/p>\n