Heart Lake Trail number 171 is reported to be an easy but long hike to the largest lake on the district located in an area proposed as a part of the Great Burn Wilderness. Heart Lake is in the Lolo National Forest and the largest alpine lake in the western Montana portion of the Bitterroot Mountains.
The lake is listed anywhere between 1.3 and 3 miles, unfortunately I could not get a GPS signal with the Motorola Droid and it was difficult to get a signal with the Garmin GPS as well. I did get some pictures tho.
The Motorola Droid doesn’t take the best pictures but its sync ability between picasa and ‘my tracks’ makes things fairly easy. Currently the steps required are to sync the pics from my phone to the picasa web album, download the picasa map for google earth then import this file into a new map within Google Maps ‘My Maps’. Then I upload my tracks to the new map. This provides me with my tracks and geotagged pictures all within google maps, make sense? Got an easier way? I like the simplicity and clean look with the seperate slide show and gps track of the previous posts but then again i like the pictures placed on the map where they were taken as I attempted in this post.
testing testing
This trip involved a stay at Lake Five Resort just south of the West Glacier Entrance. Tracks show the first days trip from Lake Five Resort through West Glacier, into Apgar Village, then on to St. Marys and back to Lake Five. Tracks also show the second days trip from Lake Five Resort, to St Marys, then on to Many Glacier and back.
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start: 7/17/2010
length: 4.5 miles (one way [in])
time: 4:46 mins (one way [in])
difficulty: strenuous
avg speed: .9 mph
elevation gain: from 5669ft to a max of 7426ft down to 6541ft
comments: stats including packing approximately 50lbs
View Sweeny Ridge to Peterson Lake, Florence MT in a larger map
start: 7/2/2010
length: 1,1 miles (one way [out])
time: 34 mins (one way [out])
difficulty: easy
avg speed: 2.0 mph
elevation gain: from 5042ft to 5524ft gaining 482ft
comments: easy hike, good views of Blodgett Canyon
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Fireworks in Wildwood NJ over the 156′ tall Ferris wheel on Morey’s Pier.
this time (as opposed to the old deck);
- the ledger is flashed and lagged into every [house] joist, hangars were used
- solid (glue lam?) 30′-ish beam
- deck joists hurricane strapp-ed to the beam
- upped the posts from 4×4 to 6×6, 6′-ish on center, off the concrete, with brackets to secure to the posts
- went with messmer’s natural to stain the doug fir
still have to head off and install the stairs, we have about 600sqft of IPE waiting …
don’t mind the big ugly house or the mess in the work area
Another excellent 4th of July, good friends and good times.
22 tubes screwed down to a trailer in the front yard.
Some fireworks in the back of the truck.
Happy 4th of July
From my picture perfect drawings, to my heavily published photo, to the daily art I perform at my job; My son has followed in my footsteps of being a true ar-teest. The following are some poems and artwork;
Weave 1lb thick cut bacon
Add one layer 2lbs of Italian sausage
Add another layer of weaved thick cut bacon
Cook at 375F for 90 minutes-ish, ensure internal temp is 170 and the bacon is how you prefer; (chewy/crispy)
get a drink and remove from oven
eat, enjoy
notice the touches of yellow and red, he is usually white. the skunk didn’t stand a chance