Spoke versus radius street camp location?

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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by maladroit » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:31 pm

If you see your camp marker, then gather your strength and just charge a straight line directly to your camp. It might be valuable to carry a grappling hook to get over some of the RVs.

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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by Just_Joe » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:06 pm

trilobyte wrote:...
...... porta-potties. ..... When you're on the alphabet block, there are banks on the spokes in either direction.
Speaking of alphabet blocks and pooping...
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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by theCryptofishist » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:19 pm

Quick. Somebody photoshop Robbidobbs into that photo.
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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by Eric » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:14 pm

Just_Joe wrote:Speaking of alphabet blocks and pooping...
It's interesting how the loss of one "h" can take a statement from "meh" to excitement.

yeah, shit happens... (something broke)

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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by geospyder » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:24 pm

Just downloaded the first pass of the BRC map for my Garmin GPS. In theory I should be able to find my way back to camp, via streets, providing I'm sober enough to remember I have a GPS in my bag :D
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Re: Spoke versus radius street camp location?

Post by Zhust » Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:08 am

GreyCoyote wrote:
Zhust wrote:The big nerd in me also wants to analyze traffic to see what the traffic flow is like. Ooh ... so data centric ...
There are 12 step recovery programs for this sort of thing, Zhust. :mrgreen:
Ooh ... a finite, integral number of steps. How wonderful.

By the way, the radials are actually numbered in base 36, in units equivalent to 319 feet (97m):

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Street       Distance  Distance Actual Error 
             (radials) (feet)   (feet)       
Esplanade    9         2871     2500   -13%  
Antioch      A         3190     2900   -9%   
Basra        B         3509     3340   -5%   
Cinnamon     C         3828     3780   -1%   
Darjeeling   D         4147     4220   2%    
Ephesus      E         4466     4660   4%    
Frankincense F         4785     5100   7%    
Gold         G         5104     5540   9%    
Haifa        H         5423     5740   6%    
Isfahan      I         5742     5940   3%    
Jade         J         6061     6140   1%    
Kandahar     K         6380     6340   -1%   
Lapis lazuli L         6699     6540   -2%   
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