One Steep Muni trail

My bad. It's called POINT MUGU. On Google Earth, go to Malibu,
California, and navigate up the coast to Mugu point. Half mile past is
a blinding white turnout on the mountain side of the road. On the ocean
side you can see a square cut shooting range. The trail shoots up the
mountainside right off the white dirt turnout.

The main thing here is to encourage Muni folk to use Google Earth as a
resource for referencing trails. You can download the program in a
minute and it utilizes sat. photos that in some cases are so vivid you
can see rocks on the trail. That way you can post about a trail and
folks can cue it up on Google Earth and be amazed at the detail. It's a
fun exercise.

There's surely a better way to locate a trail beyond posting the
coordinates, like I did, but I am not that familiar with Google Earth
and am not especially fluent in that kind of technology. Someone else
can figure out a better and easier way.

JL

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...and don't forget to tilt the angle down from 90 degrees to really see
how steep it is!

I'm a big fan of Google Earth. Here's where I ride muni most often:

27 degrees, 28' 2.35" South
152 degrees, 56' 33" East

The rockiness and short steep sections are unfortunately hidden by lots
of trees.

Andrew

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To easily show someone where to go, create a placemark (menu
'add'->'placemark'😉. Then right-click on it, and you can save it as a
file. Send it to anyone else who has Google Earth, and when they open
it, they will go directly to that spot.

Incidentally, there's a measuring tool in the 'tools' menu. That
particular trail was about 0.6 miles long. You can get an idea of how
steep it is by changing the viewpoint in the control panel below the
window to be more 'edge-on'.

Here's the placemark for the Point Mugu trail:
http://www.umit.maine.edu/~schoolcraft/point_mugu.kmz

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when are they gunna have google earth for mac????

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Yo, Josh (Entropy), you're gonna have to spell that process otu a lot
more, like step by step, for a bumbler like me to get it. You say save,
but save as what, and how do you go about sending what you save to
others. Remember, step by step or I'll neer get it.

JL

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Okay, let me try again.

1) Create a placemark.

To do this, go to menus 'Add' -> 'Placemark' OR type 'Ctrl-N'.

This will drop a new placemark (Titled 'Google Earth - New Placemark'😉
on your screen, and cause a small window to appear on the left side of
your screen (Also titled 'Google Earth - New Placemark'😉. In this new
window, you can re-name the placemark by typing in the 'Name' field.
DON'T CLICK 'OK' YET.

2) Move the placemark.

While the naming window is still open, left-click and hold on the newly
created placemark and drag it where you want it.

3) Set the placemark in place.

Click OK in the 'New Placemark' window.

4) Save the placemark as a .KMZ file.

Right click on the placemark. Click 'Save As' in the menu that pops up.
Type a name, and select where you want to save it.

You're done. Double-clicking on that file you just saved will now open
Google Earth and bring you directly to that point.

At any time if you want to re-edit or move the placemark, right-click on
it, and select 'Edit' from the menu that appears. After you do this,
you'll get that small window back, and you'll be able to move the
placemark around and rename it.

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