Poplollie Ride Maps
Below are files you can open with Google Earth, a free program, not to be mistaken for Google Maps, they are two very different things. Google Earth just may be the coolest free program ever created. (If you do download and use it, prepare to waste an hour flying around the planet. Be sure to go to the Grand Canyon and tilt the land so you fly through the canyon.) Get Google Earth here:
http://earth.google.com/index.html
Here are some Poplollie rides. Right click on Google Earth link, Save Link As, then open with Google Earth:
Highway 242 (Google
Earth file) click here for
the profile
48.1 miles, 4235 ascending feet, 4:08 ride
time, to the top and back, from the ranger station
Crater Lake (Google
Earth file) click here for
the profile
32.3 miles, 4112 ascending feet, 4:31 ride
time
Mount June (Google
Earth file) click here for
the profile
83 miles, 4931 ascending feet, 6:00 ride
time
Poodle Creek (Google
Earth file) click here for
the profile
58 miles, 2100 ascending feet, 3:45 ride
time, moderate pace
Wolf Creek ( Google
Earth file) click here for
the profile, ridden clockwise
65 miles, 3700 ascending feet, 4:20 ride
time
Brush Creek
(Google Earth file) click here
for the profile
75 miles, 4100 ascending feet, 5:10
ride time
Butler / Lawrence (Google Earth file) click here
for the profile
42 miles, 2000 ascending feet, 3:00 ride time
Google Earth tips:
-broadband needed, and a fairly new computer helps
-use all the control dials/sliders that overlays the
map - spin and tilt the map
-click and drag the land
-click and "throw the land"
-spin around a hill and look at it from different angles
-zoom back out to space, type in your address in the Search
field and click the Play button
-save your address to Your Places
-search Google for "Google Earth Landmarks," there
are lots of them out there....