Google be cray-cray!
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Google be cray-cray!
Just for giggles, I asked Google to plot a route between Arcata and Mad River (at Ruth Lake) on a bicycle. The more interesting route is 76 miles, has 10,500ft of elevation gain, and zero water in remote, rugged land. They rather optimistically said I could do it in 11 hours. Take a look; it's pretty of cool and kind of hilarious.
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Google estimates my time as the same... so apparently we'd make compatible riding partners.
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Just for giggles, I asked Google to plot a route between Arcata and Mad River (at Ruth Lake) on a bicycle. The more interesting route is 76 miles, has 10,500ft of elevation gain, and zero water in remote, rugged land. They rather optimistically said I could do it in 11 hours. Take a look; it's pretty of cool and kind of hilarious.
I know, I should do something productive, like wash the dishes.
I know, I should do something productive, like wash the dishes.
I kid, I kid. Google doesn't know all the things. Which is a good thing perhaps.
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Actually, it looks like it would be quite doable, if I was an experienced bikepacker. I'm just a bored ex-commuter looking for places to explore out my front door, in a place that doesn't have a lot of them.
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I drove a few recent with my son on recent visit, and thought they had some potential
this is of interest as I am consider the area for a retirement location
google maps bike option is certainly optimistic on average speed and sometimes produce highly convoluted routes
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I lived in Arcata for 6 years in the 80's and 90's (Go Lumberjacks). Miss it a lot. Looking at the route it seems pretty neat and a great excursion through the woods and what were once woods. At one time there were giant redwoods that stood there, now all gone. But what the route does not show is that once past Blue Lake it is all up and down, and mostly up going east. I mean climb city. Probably 11 hours is not unreasonable because that is one big mountain range starting at Blue Lake.
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Google is a work in process
It's still learning
Today Google learnt that you guys are bad mouthing it's trip estimate!
and It knows where you live!
Barry
It's still learning
Today Google learnt that you guys are bad mouthing it's trip estimate!
and It knows where you live!
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When is it that, when I look at the route, "Dueling Banjos" starts playing in my head?
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how is riding the little back roads between 101 and humboldt beach, like where you can see the longhorn cattle? not enough to go far or ???
I drove a few recent with my son on recent visit, and thought they had some potential
this is of interest as I am consider the area for a retirement location
google maps bike option is certainly optimistic on average speed and sometimes produce highly convoluted routes
I drove a few recent with my son on recent visit, and thought they had some potential
this is of interest as I am consider the area for a retirement location
google maps bike option is certainly optimistic on average speed and sometimes produce highly convoluted routes
I lived in Arcata for 6 years in the 80's and 90's (Go Lumberjacks). Miss it a lot. Looking at the route it seems pretty neat and a great excursion through the woods and what were once woods. At one time there were giant redwoods that stood there, now all gone. But what the route does not show is that once past Blue Lake it is all up and down, and mostly up going east. I mean climb city. Probably 11 hours is not unreasonable because that is one big mountain range starting at Blue Lake.
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When I left, going South, I followed a trail a good ways. I found a fallen tree, blocking the path, and had to clear a way through. My bike didn't have a reverse gear, so I couldn't just back up, and leave the way I came. 🙄😁😉
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@stardognine, I haven't done Crescent City; that's a good 70 miles north. And yes, my rule of thumb is "don't piss off anything bigger than you or that has pointier teeth". It has served me well.
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@stardognine, I haven't done Crescent City; that's a good 70 miles north. And yes, my rule of thumb is "don't piss off anything bigger than you or that has pointier teeth". It has served me well.
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Hah! 7 hrs 35 min according to Google, but they didn't account for the headwind. It chose an interesting route, keeping me off Highway 101 as much as it could, including Hammond Truck Rd., which I've wanted to ride for quite a while, but it's a logging road on Green Diamond Resources property. I added Old State Highway; not sure why Google didn't; Street View from 2007 shows pavement, so it's fine, right?
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I forgot about that headwind. Particularly brutal, along the coast there, going South to North. I learned to "rail against the wind" there, which is just like cussin', but none can hear it, not even the cusser. 🤐😁
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