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snousleI've been using Google Earth to understand the local geography a bit, and created an image that explains the layout of things pretty well.
Setting placeholders with GPS coordinates reveals about a 50 foot displacement in the location of the image. So I have to correct all the coordinates I type in by that amount.
The area outlined is 1/8 mile x 1/2 mile, which is 40 acres. The elevation is not exaggerated, and the total elevation change from one end to the other is about 800 feet. The terrain is somewhat smoother in this image than in actual life, but the overall steepness is representative. Just behind the road is an arroyo that is fairly deep and out of sight in this view. Our house is now located about halfway between the "Rock" marker and the boundary to the right (west).
The new spring I was talking about the other day is at the marker at the very top, or south end of the property. Today I ventured across onto the land belonging to an absentee landowner to the left (east), and discovered some spring barrels in a rather strange and hard to reach spot, with no apparent water sources nearby. I'd also been curious about the line extending down from that area - it looks kind of like a sinkhole, except it's long and narrow and on an extremely steep slope. I get the impression there was a landslide, except there isn't much debris to be found. Perhaps it happened hundreds of years ago and the building of the road eliminated any excess dirt?
The terrain on the slope around there is really insane. Fortunately the deer have created little trails everywhere that offer firm footing. If only they weren't so short! Constantly ducking under things is a royal pain.
Anyway, no sign of any new water sources, so I think I'll concentrate on the upper spring once this next storm passes.
Setting placeholders with GPS coordinates reveals about a 50 foot displacement in the location of the image. So I have to correct all the coordinates I type in by that amount.
The area outlined is 1/8 mile x 1/2 mile, which is 40 acres. The elevation is not exaggerated, and the total elevation change from one end to the other is about 800 feet. The terrain is somewhat smoother in this image than in actual life, but the overall steepness is representative. Just behind the road is an arroyo that is fairly deep and out of sight in this view. Our house is now located about halfway between the "Rock" marker and the boundary to the right (west).
The new spring I was talking about the other day is at the marker at the very top, or south end of the property. Today I ventured across onto the land belonging to an absentee landowner to the left (east), and discovered some spring barrels in a rather strange and hard to reach spot, with no apparent water sources nearby. I'd also been curious about the line extending down from that area - it looks kind of like a sinkhole, except it's long and narrow and on an extremely steep slope. I get the impression there was a landslide, except there isn't much debris to be found. Perhaps it happened hundreds of years ago and the building of the road eliminated any excess dirt?
The terrain on the slope around there is really insane. Fortunately the deer have created little trails everywhere that offer firm footing. If only they weren't so short! Constantly ducking under things is a royal pain.
Anyway, no sign of any new water sources, so I think I'll concentrate on the upper spring once this next storm passes.
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Date: 2009-02-05 08:31 am (UTC)(this is no slight against you, the land, or anything being presented, of course. it just saddens me that we can only see trees instead of crickets right now.)
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Date: 2009-02-05 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-05 06:08 pm (UTC)I'm lookin' forward to hiking up there next QBT.
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Date: 2009-02-06 01:35 am (UTC)When I visited last year and viewed the southern terrain from the house, I thought that that triangle of steep land (formed by the line of the road and the point where your eastern boundary comes closest to the "spring barrels") was, effectively, an unwalkable vertical wall. Are the deer trails there switch-backs? The western edge of your land looks much more walkable for the casual hiker (while that central eastern edge look more like "terrain in hell" ;-).
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Date: 2009-02-09 12:15 am (UTC)