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Steve, a request from a slow learner, could you put a North arrow, if possible, on the map if it is not oriented to the North.
On Google Maps, I checked where the McKenzie River is to get their general location.
Up!
Darryl, one of the first things you learn about maps is the top is always north in normal presentations and unless otherwise noted it is usually safe to assume the top / up is north. Think about all road maps you’ve ever seen or any direction giving apps (at least ones I’m familiar with) … north is always the top.
One exception to North = Up is using Bing Maps in Bird’s Eye mode.
It does offer the useful ability to rotate in 90° increments, and re-orientates all labels accordingly. If you never tried it, see this example of lower Manhattan. Just click twice on either curved arrow on the far right side of the screen to change to South = Up.
When you save the URL, it reverts back to North = Up, but naturally anyone saving a map can rotate it around themselves, which is why a default of superimposing a N-S-E-W guide would be nice.
They posted yesterday “20km headwind and a negative tidal current”. The misjudged the journey as 2 rowers are not enough. The might not fail because of ice. No, they just can’t get the boat moving in the windy condition.
Amundsen was lucky because they didn’t have wind or tides in 1906.
their GPS map is not accurate at all….
…they just went around a sand bar and are still hugging the shore
tow tow tow your boat….
….drag it all the way
Hee hee hee…. 🙂
It’s getting crowded. “first crossing of the Northwest Passage in a kayak”
http://www.revedeglace.ca/expeditions.html
They could meet up on the way. 😉
These guys look a little more like seasoned kayakers and might smoke right along compared to the tortoise rowboat. They aren’t going as far either.
All they need is for Reggie to get busy with that blow torch he brags about and it will be easy cruising!!
Their northwest stop yesterday was at #50. Now the stop along shore today is #50.
That NW GPS point is #40 today. It looks like somewhere they’ve somehow shaved 10 stops.
I wonder why the adjustments?
They must be getting assistance from climate scientists.
It appears maximum number of points is 50, so if there are 50 points, then the newest point 50, the rest get renumbered, the oldest get dropped.
Confusing.
You’re right. #1 is now east of Tuk.
Climate science!
Did they have any sort of plan as to where they should be on this date as opposed to where they are now?
Plan??? PLAN???
Surely you jest.
The Brawndo Blowhard Blowtorch was going to melt the all the Arctic ice for them and they were going to enjoy the near-tropical temperatures that 400 ppm CO2 would cause to happen above the Arctic circle. How did they know all these “facts”? The Al Goristas said it would happen so they believed them.
They’re two weeks behind schedule. The trip was supposed to be ~1,800 miles. They look to be 100 miles east of the mouth of the MacKenzie River, near the tip of the Peninsula at the east end of the Delta. They’ve been venturing out and back to the Peninsula, it looks like they’re sometimes hiding behind sandbars, waiting for ice that clogs their route just east of them to disappear. I can’t remember when they were supposed to reach Pond Inlet.
Here it is: http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/docs/Four-adventurers-set-off-to-row-the-Northwest-Passage-FINAL-June-17.pdf
Their anticipated arrival in Pond Inlet, Nunavut was 75-90 days from planned start on July 1, with plans of rowing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. October 1st would be their drop dead date. Winter build-out will have been occurring for at least two weeks at that time.
I think they’re facing a much earlier ‘drop dead’ date.
If they can make it around the corner, I would take refuge in that protected inlet called Eskimo Lakes, not far from the Mackenzie River as the crow flies. They need to stay alive.
Remember that lunatic Boston Marathoner who won, with the help of the subway? Wonder if she had any children.
That’d be Rosie Ruiz
Wikipedia: “1980. In 1982, Ruiz was arrested for embezzling $60,000 from a real estate company where she worked. She spent one week in jail and was sentenced to five years’ probation.[9][10] She then moved back to southern Florida, only to be arrested in 1983 for her involvement in a cocaine deal. She was sentenced to three years probation.[11][10] At last report, she was working in West Palm Beach[10] as a client representative for a medical laboratory company.[12] As of the year 2000, she still maintained that she ran the entire 1980 Boston Marathon.[2]”
(I believe she now works in climate science.) 😀
Did it mention if she had any children who got into rowing? 🙂