Quincy lakes South

This is the first map of Quincy lakes - it's South part. There is a virtual O' course set there. If anyone wants to try it out, let me know. The scale of the map as drawn is 1:10000, but for printing out, 1:15000 currently is used to... SUPPORT MY HOME PRINTER...The course is set to be 8.1 km long, but can easily be shortened.

What is the quality of the map currently? 

Trails are drawn from pictures and some 2 year old GPS traces. We were very active in this place 2 years ago when a small training adventure race was put on. 

Contours are from USA 10 meter grid DEM. That means that the smaller re-entrants are clearly missing. 

Vegetation is as it is seen from pictures and not 100% correct thus. I believe the map is usable for training purposes. White vegetation is rough open land. 

Rocks are guesses from the satellite pictures again. 

This is how to get to the start area from Seattle.

The area is quite rattlesnake infested, but I expect that they are still quite passive at this time of year. 

Dungeness spit

I have been playing around on-line data from Dungeness recreation area. This is what I have accumulated it into.

They say it is a 230 acre park, so half of Bridle trails (460 acres). Just in case someone is out for vacation there, it might be worthwhile looking into this map. Vegetation is approximate at this point. Roads and tax parcel information from Clallam county GIS. Contours are 2.5 meter ones from, current scale is 1:7500. The area is interesting because it has different vegetation and is open to general public off-trail at least in the southern part of it - hunting is allowed there during hunting season.

Final results to Willows Fjords 2012

Willows Fjords course is closed.
These are now final results of WF2012:

Course 2:
Jan/Ing 1:46
Rick/Kean 1:50
Ing/Susan/Debbie 2:28

Route gadget.

Willows Fjords

Willows Fjords challenge is up:
For potential parking, start and finish locations, see here.
For general description of the trails, see here (Evergreen MTB).
Please respect no trespassing signs and play responsibly.

The map you will be running on:

I hope to get at least 2 runners, so that there is some competition.
For map with checkpoints, please email me.

Lidar points as township rectangles

Puget sound lidar consortium shares King County lidar data as "township" rectangles (terminology is weak here). In any case, the whole county is described by coordinates such as ak23 and bc20.
A rather non-helping image is shared by King County GIS services which ends up helping me to guess that I need something around ak20, downloading that and then counting from that one, which one I really need. Hopefully the guess was close enough.
So, to solve this ridiculous issue, I did the following - I put topo maps using global mapper on top of these township rectangles. No more guessing!
It is not the best quality one, but certainly very helpful, so I share the result.

Now we know that ax35 is Drunken Charlie lake, an32/an31 - willows fjords, ar11 - sawyer lake.
Now more guessing!

Two point five maps in works

FYI, there are 2.5 maps in works.
Crestwoods park has been looked at, drawn and found almost good to go. Nikolay Nachev, team USA orienteer is test running a course on it this week. The date of the race most likely will be some late April or so.

Second map - Willows Fjords has been run in and a base map is being made. Two great resources have been found for usage with it:

1. Switchbacks.com, which provides Garmin GPS compatible map files of GPS-ed trails of Western Washington. It is not the most useful in terms of GPS quality, bvut for overall understanding of what is happening around - it is just great.
2. Redmond GIS - building bases, roads, etc, - all for download. 

Finally - we are trying to figure out what to do with Moss lake. There seem to be lots of trails, but we need to go there and take a look, the progress on this one is minuscule.

First event results

Murray&Peteris: run time around 3:20. CPs reached - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. At 7 the wet snow became very, very cold and we bailed out.

On the run: it took as 20 minutes or so to get to the start, CP1 - 30 minutes. CP20 - 30 minutes, CP3 - 15 minutes and so on.

This post will be updated if more runners attempt it or more data comes in (gpx files).
On the other hand, I made some updates to the map. Very approximate, very home-brew.
Here it is: