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Glacier Park Part 2 using the Motorola Droid, Google Maps, and Picasa

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:40:40 +0000

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.
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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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Glacier National Park

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:05:53 +0000

My previous trip to Glacier didnt go past Avalanche Campground, this time we stayed for 3 days.

Outstanding views in this park

note; two panoramic pics are included with the photos / maps. These photos are too small in flickr and are misplaced on all maps, they should be located more towards the north east side of st mary’s lake.

flickr photos

flickr map

google map (with pictures)

google earth (with pictures)

Glacier National Park – Avalanche Lake and McDonald Lake

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:10:52 +0000

Our visit to Glacier National Park took us 16 miles in the West Glacier entrance to Avalanche Campground. With 50 camp sites the campground is definitely on the edge of the wild.

While there were no signs of bears the deer had no problem with the campers.

After camping at Avalanche Campground, we took a hike along Avalanche Creek, a rough yet spectacular clear blue creek runs along an ‘easy’ hike up towards Avalanche Lake. The hike is approximately 2 miles each way and a gain of 500ft in elevation.

Along the hike many surrounding mountains still had snow which was melting and causing runoff resulting in huge falls, this is a small one;

Upon reaching the lake we found crystal clear water surrounded by mountains.

Later that day, a little lunch at McDonald Lake;