So on the 11th Meridth and I went hiking. Cool, huh?
So this is about half a mile into the hike and the camera is facing North. Note the big rock with the arrow above it. It is a reference point. What does it refer to you ask?
Well here is the arrow again. Look how much smaller the lump of rock we were by has become. Are you impressed with our bipedal fortitude?
Last reference. It was a gorgeous day to be out. Warm and breezy by the ocean. Sadly RADAR couldn't come with. There aren't a lot of dog-friendly trails in the CA State Park system. Still California is awesome. Except for the fires of course. The trail we were going to hike were closed from the fires down here last summer. Boo.
Here's a rough outline of our course. The red arrow is the parking lot. The orange arrow is, in fact, the spot we pointed to earlier. The lump of terrain? Yeah. The mustard yellow spot is where we turned back inland. And green was where we turned left and started back for red. It was about eight and a half miles all told and we knocked it out in about four and a half hours. Lots of fun. Well worth the unsightly tummy-sweat.
Meridth found some things to love too.
3 comments:
I love it you guys! Way to make me look like a techno-moron! I loved your insert from Google-earth and wish you could teach me how to do that. I don't know--is there any hope for me? I must have a really long learning curve!
Ed and I sure enjoyed your pictures, and remember all the times when we used to go for walks. That was always such a great time for us, and we're glad to know you enjoy it, too.
Have more happy times in beautiful Monterrey, California!
Love,
Claudia
Meridth actually whipped up that .tiff a few days after our hike and I just got busy and didn't post it to the blog. It's only by unfortunate happenstance that it should appear directly following your post on how you couldn't post pictures from google earth. Bad luck that!
And anyway, it's a breeze to get images from google earth, or anywhere for that matter. The arrows are the tricky part, and she did that in Adobe Illustrator. But back to screen grabs. All you have to do is open up the program called Preview. (You use it primarily to look at PDFs jpegs and such.) Up at the top menus under File you see an option called Grab with a right-facing arrow that offers another menu. Under this menu you will find Selection Window and Timed Screen. These are all option you can use essentially to take a picture of your screen. Selection gives you a cross-hair that lets you drag over any part of your screen and turns it into a .tiff (a type of picture file, kinda like a .jpeg) and automatically saves it to the desktop. Window takes a picture of any window you have open and Timed Selection (I suppose) allows you to record the stuff you are doing on a computer at any given time. Cool stuff, huh?
Like you wanted to know all that...
Shift-Apple-4 takes screen shots too.
Karl
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