The road did not exist. Here's the response from the map company... not very reassuring, but I'm not sure what might be more reassuring. Sardonic grin. Rather reminds me of the first backbacking trip my wife and I took in the San Juans. Trail vanished an hour in to the second day. That should have been our clue to turn around. Instead I taught her how to triangulate via map and compass and we did great until the third day when we couldn't find the lake we were heading to. Anywhere. Figuring we were lost, we worked our way out to the Million Dollar Highway (we were going from Ouray to Silverton). We learned we were in the right spot, but the lake had been mined under. Checked the date on your USGS maps. 1954. This was 1990. Oops. That's when we learned to ask locally. For all the good it did with the vanished road. Sardonic grin.
With abandon, Patrick ~~~ It looks like we are wrong in showing FR254 connecting to County Rd 59. Attached are screenshots from our atlas, Google Maps, Google Streetview, and the MVUM (motor vehicle use map) for South Park Ranger District of Pike-San Isabel NF. You can see that our atlas shows what is seen in Streetview as the through 4WD rd. This is wrong as you found out. The MVUM map, published this year by the Forest Service is what we should show, and will show in the next edition of the CO atlas. FR 254 is accessible from FR890 and ends well short of County Rd 59. Here is a link to this free map via the Pike-San Isabel NF website. https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd544976.pdf Maybe this road did connect at one time, the data we used for CO certainly says so. I hope this helps clear up the discrepancy. ~~~ On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 5:13:59 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > In which we discover families love the flexibility of riding some, all, or > none of a given days ride, maps and signs don’t always agree and who’s to > say who’s right, roads on the map may or may not exist in reality, and > aspen shade on a hot day of climbing is delightful. > http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/test-run-for-sag-wagon-camping > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.CredoFamily.org > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
