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Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:32 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 2098 Location: Greenwood

Gooooogle Biek maps announcement is coming (finally)

seen any around town?
If you followed it around you could be a local celebrity, in every single shot

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lantius
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:03 pm Reply with quote
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well i'll be damned. it works.
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derrickito
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:21 pm Reply with quote
now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

last year we ran into a guy on a fixed gear out for a leisurely ride around town. he was in seattle for his day job of riding that thing (the big google trike) around all the trails and roads doing recording. we got him drunk and showed him a good time then sent him on his way.
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joeball
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:24 am Reply with quote
Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 6037 Location: Ether

lantius wrote:
well i'll be damned. it works.


I thought we dead ended trying to continue on the railroad grade trail through to Snoqualmie Pkwy. Usually we detour through Fall City for some delicious Small Fryes which is reason enough.
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:58 am Reply with quote
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joeball wrote:
lantius wrote:
well i'll be damned. it works.


I thought we dead ended trying to continue on the railroad grade trail through to Snoqualmie Pkwy. Usually we detour through Fall City for some delicious Small Fryes which is reason enough.

someone needs to figure out if that goes thru stat.
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henry
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:41 am Reply with quote
somewhat piggish Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 5415 Location: on porch with shotgun

I've been eyeing that route on the map for a while, but haven't checked it out.

The main reason i always take Preston Fall City Rd into town is because i hate those muddy switchbacks which are basically unrideable.

This route basically trades a steep ass hill going up to Lake Alice for the steep ass hill going up to the SVT on the north side of the valley, and eliminates a fried food stop.

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lantius
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:46 am Reply with quote
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it looks like it was funded/permitted but placed on hold in 2007 and isn't implemented yet from what i can tell. the missing section is where it launches over that creek ravine, i believe.

there is however a new set of trails that head due south through the development called "snoqualmie ridge" - i found this very quaint hand-drawn map on the internets:



i don't think i'd bypass small fryes for a climb up that ridge.
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Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:47 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 2098 Location: Greenwood

looks like they made a PR video with some detailed instructions on how to use it efficiently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5_NBSu7Lw&feature=player_embedded
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jeff
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:40 am Reply with quote
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Look at that shitty photography.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/03/11/a-few-words-about-google-biking
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henry
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:43 am Reply with quote
somewhat piggish Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 5415 Location: on porch with shotgun

Those fuckin' hippies at the stranger should start paying me in weed.

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jeff
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:47 am Reply with quote
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henry wrote:
Those fuckin' hippies at the stranger should start paying me in weed.


Yeah, I'm sure once they start paying their freelancers period and offering their full-time employees health insurance they'll totally get you back. Totally bro!

But hey, nobody reads the weekly, times, pi, etc ... so they got that going.

/Self-serving media rant.
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henry
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:05 am Reply with quote
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Welcome to Touchyville!

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corpusjuris
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:17 am Reply with quote
Don't you ever lie to me Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1059 Location: Boat on a hill

Hey, that's the night where Pete almost got me smeared by a freight train on our way to the 9 lb! That was a really fun .83 day, and now I miss the summer. And BBQ. Hey tittlefitz, how's that going?

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pete jr
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:51 am Reply with quote
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was your fault for tripping
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corpusjuris
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:19 pm Reply with quote
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pete jr wrote:
was your fault for tripping


Did I trip? I don't remember tripping at all. Even without tripping I was still, literally, fractions of a second from being .83's first fatality. Not complaining; that night was awesome and staring UP at the headlight of a freight train (those fuckers are huge, even more so when it's coming right at you) is a memory I'll have till I die.

More just making a note of it: don't follow Pete through train tracks. This may wind up in the TOS at some point.

edit: I forgot that this rule has been violated already, by me no less.

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