GPS map of my southwest NH sugarbush
I use a Garmin ForeRunner when I run, and it's easy to download the tracks and import into Google Earth. So that's what I did! I also added a USGS map overlay to show contours.
Just walking alongside each lateral and mainline, I put this together to share my progress with friends on Facebook:
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I discovered in the process too that Google Earth will generate (using its own terrain data) an elevation profile along a path, which for this example is my mainline. Glad to see the program agrees it's all downhill!
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Hmm...what else can I do with this?
-JJ
2009: 11 buckets, cinderblocks and food service pan
2010: 25 buckets
2011: 67 gravity to sugarhouse
2012: 170 caged tanks
2013: 275 bringing back some buckets for aesthetics
2014: 300 gravity and buckets
2019: 35 buckets at elementary school, flat pan on propane
11x30 shack in the woods: no power/water, only snowmobile or snowshoes 'til March.
2.5x8 Leader arch, Grimm English tin drop flue/cross-flow syrup pan