Waypoints for La Cloche trail in Killarney provincial park

[russ&rob]

I'm planning on hiking the La Cloche trail in Killarney Provincial Park this summer and was wondering if anyone had GPS coordinates of the trail. Thanks!

[+Juicepig]

I don't have them any more, but I still have my route map to Silver peak - As well as a Google image of the route I took to get to the top.. From the maps I just "made up" rough coordinates, and plotted them in map source. It worked out fine!

 

Are you planning to do the entire trail? How many weeks have you booked off?

Edited April 16, 2007 by Juicepig

[+simplyred]

I am hoping to tackle Silver peak this suummer also, looks like a great trip/cache, thanks for the map also. Might just come in handy.

[russ&rob]

I don't have them any more, but I still have my route map to Silver peak - As well as a Google image of the route I took to get to the top.. From the maps I just "made up" rough coordinates, and plotted them in map source. It worked out fine!

 

Are you planning to do the entire trail? How many weeks have you booked off?

 

Thanks very much. That's great.

 

Ok, here it is... I'm planning on doing it in 3 days. [insert laughter here]. I've hiked chunks of the trail before so I know what it's like. And my wife and I carried huge packs from Bunnyrabbit to George Lake in 7 hours in the most incredible deluge I've ever seen (water was knee deep in some areas).... Ok, I'm laughing now but I really think I can do it. Really.

[+Juicepig]

[insert laughter here]

 

HAHAHAHA Good luck - no really

 

I am sure it can be done... not by me! but I am sure someone could do it!

[+Girls Phind Squirrels]

[insert laughter here]

 

HAHAHAHA Good luck - no really

 

I am sure it can be done... not by me! but I am sure someone could do it!

 

We took 8 days. There was five in our group. It was the perfect amount of time to enjoy it.

[+Red90]

If the trail is on the federal topographic maps, you can get the data online. See the thread about the free topo maps.

[+clatmandu]

If you have the Killarney map, it already has UTM grids on it and you can enter these into your gpsr, then when you switch back to degrees, it will convert the UTM coords.

[russ&rob]

If the trail is on the federal topographic maps, you can get the data online. See the thread about the free topo maps.

 

Thanks. I found the thread and even understood some of it. It will take some reading for me to figure out how to do this. Pretty cool stuff though!

[russ&rob]

If you have the Killarney map, it already has UTM grids on it and you can enter these into your gpsr, then when you switch back to degrees, it will convert the UTM coords.

 

That's a good idea! In fact, I have the Mapsource Canada Enhanced Basemap so I could actually use the Killarney map to lay out the trail on the basemap and then save the map to my GPS. So simple but it never occurred to me.

 

I guess it's clear that I haven't done this kind of stuff before?! All I've ever done is load the maps from the CD and load cache waypoints...

[Freelancer]

Once you have done the hike and collected some GPS data.. be sure to add it to the La Cloche Trailpeak entry, as no one has yet. Then you get 3 free downloads of someone else's GPS data.

[russ&rob]

Once you have done the hike and collected some GPS data.. be sure to add it to the La Cloche Trailpeak entry, as no one has yet. Then you get 3 free downloads of someone else's GPS data.

I will!