Re: Which Way-points to a burrito?

[Fred Ecks]

Heya Brian,

Here are some handy-dandy points to punch in:

37 34.810 N, 122 28.592 W: Entrance to San Pedro Valley Park in Pacifica
37 34.048 N, 122 29.437 W: Right turn onto 4WD road down Montara Mountain
37 32.746 N, 122 30.696 W: Where we get off trails when entering the town of Montara
37 31.411 N, 122 30.961 W: James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
37 26.250 N, 122 22.244 W: Entrance to Purisima Creek
37 26.068 N, 122 19.073 W: Exit from Purisima Creek at Skyline
37 23.584 N, 122 16.272 W: Exit from trails along Skyline onto Stadler Dr. / Hwy 84 (near Alice's Restaurant)
37 17.834 N, 122 15.903 W: Entrance to Sam MacDonald County Park (restrooms, water, pay phone)
37 17.318 N, 122 14.851 W: Sierra Club Hiker's Hut -- AID STATION by Ann Haebig!
37 16.740 N, 122 14.947 W: Intersection with Pete Town Trail -- stay right on Pescadero Creek Fireroad
37 16.057 N, 122 15.936 W: Intersection with Old Haul Road -- turn left
37 15.925 N, 122 15.615 W: Right turn onto trail up to Butano Ridge
37 15.171 N, 122 16.195 W: Left turn onto Butano Ridge fireroad
37 14.232 N, 122 14.353 W: Stay straight on Butano Ridge to enter easement into Big Basin Redwoods
37 12.884 N, 122 13.268 W: Enter Big Basin Redwoods at end of China Grade Rd.
37 11.948 N, 122 12.068 W: Turn right onto Skyline-to-the-Sea trail to park headquarters
37 10.347 N, 122 13.423 W: Big Basin park headquarters (restrooms, water, pay phone)
37 09.980 N, 122 11.264 W: Right turn off 236 onto Little Basin Rd. / Bloom Grade Rd.
37 08.778 N, 122 09.474 W: Right turn onto Jamison Creek Rd. -- start of last big climb
37 08.505 N, 122 11.223 W: Left turn onto Empire Grade Rd. -- AID STATION by Andy Benkert!
37 01.068 N, 122 04.772 W: Left off Empire Grade Rd. onto fireroads & trails (Chinquapin Rd.)
36 59.274 N, 122 02.388 W: Harvey West Park -- welcome to Santa Cruz
36 58.505 N, 122 01.664 W: Planet Fresh Burritos -- FINISH LINE!!!

Argh, there are 23 of 'em.  Pick whichever seem most important to you, and punch 'em in.  I've tried to emphasize the later points, where we'll be getting tired, it'll be dark, we may be spread far apart, etc.

These are all in the format of degrees, minutes.  Those are fractional minutes, not seconds.  Or as Garmin says, DDD,MM.MMM, *not* DDD,MM,SS.SSS.  Your GPS can use either format -- I checked.  :-)

Seeya Saturday,

 - Fred
   (415) 425-0805

PS: I'm Cc'ing the mailing list, in case others would like some GPS waypoints along the route...


Fred Ecks wrote:

Howdy Brian,

Okydoke, lemme poke around on the topo a bit later today, and I'll get a list of significant waypoints to you.

I just took a gander at the Foretrex 101 docs online, and I must say, what a nice GPS!  I have a Forerunner 405, and it's a royal pain that the battery can't be charged on the go, and the battery life is only good for a 50k (for me).  It's way cool that you can just swap AAA batteries in the Foretrex 101, and keep on truckin'.  I'm gonna carry my GPSMap 76CSx, because it uses AAs which I can swap on the fly.  It doesn't go on my wrist, though.  :-(

More later on,

 - Fred
   (415) 425-0805

brian myers wrote:

Hey Fred, Brian here.  I have a Garmin Foretrex 101 with no computer hook up.  I have never used waypoints before and I am pretty sure that I have to enter them manually.  I guess whatever major points that we have to come to on the run would be great to have in my GPS.  It can store up to 20 but no maps.  Thanks for your help. Brian

[brian myers]

Fred- You rock. That's great I can fit 20 in my GPS so thank you very much. I might have to pick your brain a little on how this stuff works (early on of course...after mile 60 it's all math questions ;).
Brian


--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Fred Ecks <fr...@pobox.com> wrote: