--M.
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I was perusing the Trail Conditions, and came across Fred Shirley's url for his Osceola hike (http://www.vftt.org/trail/nh/5106.html, www.mv.com/ipusers/fs/osceola.html).
First off, Great job, Fred! I love reading your stuff.
I especially liked reading Fred's photo caption, which identifies several key landmarks. I dug out my map book to look up all the points relative to his vantage. How cool it is to look on both the photo and the map and see his line of sight from Osceola to the Hancocks, Carrigain, and others! You could precisely triangulate his position by looking at the line of Tremont and Kearsarge North, Huntington and Carrigain.
Now, to the point: Would more of you please indulge this with similarly precisely captioned photos?
For example, take a look at this photo by Brad Washburn (who rocks): http://www.washburngallery.org/index.php?p=11&v=1&MWOCART=56f2a260f40c3b8d4f13ebe313fd021b.
Would you please identify the river running down the center-left of the photo, the river running up from the bottom center, the likeliest exact location and height of the photographer, and what the end-points of that huge horseshow are? If that's Bondcliff with Franconia Brook to its left, well, I've never seen the Bonds as a horseshoe before, and it took the photo, not the map, to show that figure.
This is something I love seeing on these boards, and would love to see the Trail Conditions or Trip reports more illustrated with maps & photos.
By the way, the map software used by some here (see, for example, Bob & Geri's Mt. Tom report, http://www.rbhayes.net/latest/MtTom/index.htm), Terrain Navigator (http://www.maptech.com/land/terrainnavigatorpro/index.cfm?infopg=buy) does a great job of slicing up views.
--M.
ps: Thanks to all whose URLs I used.
First off, Great job, Fred! I love reading your stuff.
I especially liked reading Fred's photo caption, which identifies several key landmarks. I dug out my map book to look up all the points relative to his vantage. How cool it is to look on both the photo and the map and see his line of sight from Osceola to the Hancocks, Carrigain, and others! You could precisely triangulate his position by looking at the line of Tremont and Kearsarge North, Huntington and Carrigain.
Now, to the point: Would more of you please indulge this with similarly precisely captioned photos?
For example, take a look at this photo by Brad Washburn (who rocks): http://www.washburngallery.org/index.php?p=11&v=1&MWOCART=56f2a260f40c3b8d4f13ebe313fd021b.
Would you please identify the river running down the center-left of the photo, the river running up from the bottom center, the likeliest exact location and height of the photographer, and what the end-points of that huge horseshow are? If that's Bondcliff with Franconia Brook to its left, well, I've never seen the Bonds as a horseshoe before, and it took the photo, not the map, to show that figure.
This is something I love seeing on these boards, and would love to see the Trail Conditions or Trip reports more illustrated with maps & photos.
By the way, the map software used by some here (see, for example, Bob & Geri's Mt. Tom report, http://www.rbhayes.net/latest/MtTom/index.htm), Terrain Navigator (http://www.maptech.com/land/terrainnavigatorpro/index.cfm?infopg=buy) does a great job of slicing up views.
--M.
ps: Thanks to all whose URLs I used.
