[BR-Crater] [Stratofox Team] Crater Assault 3 plans & directions

[Owen DeLong]

I'll volunteer for POC if nobody else can do it.

However, I'll be teaching in the ocean this weekend, so, my POC
coverage will be spotty and voice mail-ed at times.  As such, I think
I am not an ideal POC, but, I can, and will, do the job if needed.

Owen

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Ian Kluft wrote:

> Tom KG6BRK said he'd like to rendezvous in Reno on Friday.  (He's  
> coming
> from Placerville.)  I think early afternoon will probably work best.
> I'll ask Heather, Lowell and anyone else who's coming what time works
> for them.  If possible, I'd like us to rendezvous for a convoy so we
> can look out for each other.
>
> I just got a call from Bob Verish.  He and Moni Waiblinger are already
> in Northern Nevada and will meet us at Upper High Dry.  (Bob is a  
> Stratofox
> member who qualified during our assistance to the Fossett search  
> last year,
> and a geologist with impact crater experience.)  I gave Bob a  
> summary of
> the directions included below.
>
> We need a POC (Point of Contact). Stratofox's normal procedure when  
> we have
> a crew going outside of cell coverage is that someone who isn't  
> going can
> take the reports of people enroute and as they leave and return to  
> cell
> coverage.  On an extended trip, the crew would call the POC whenever  
> going
> to town.  The POC is also a contact for friends and family to  
> contact the
> crew in the field.  will also forward to the mail list any news from  
> the
> team in the field.  This is still good practice for a real tracking  
> event
> at Black Rock, though the POC has a much bigger workload on those  
> events.
>
> Just so everyone knows where to go, here are the directions...
>
> While you can drive GPS-direct to most places on the main Black Rock  
> playa,
> it's trickier getting to the mountains.  You have to intercept the  
> trail that
> exits the playa.  For the Black Rock Hot Springs exit trail, we  
> developed a
> procedure with a series of waypoints which circumvents the Quinn  
> River Sink
> area, which had mud and standing water on SF2 in 2003.  In 2006 at  
> SF3 we
> used this new procedure to get to Upper High Dry.  In 2007 at SF4, we
> backtracked the route to get out in a white-out sandstorm.
>
>   Map for traversing the playa:
>   http://www.stratofox.org/events/craterassault3/ca3_black_rock_approach.png
>
>   Map for traversing the Black Rock Range to Upper Hi-Dry:
>   http://www.stratofox.org/events/craterassault3/ca3-map.png
>
>   GPS driving procedure summary:
>   http://www.stratofox.org/events/craterassault3/uhd-gps-procedure.png
>
>   Waypoints used on the above maps:
>   11-mile playa entrance at Hwy 34      40.772556, -119.262139   
> BR-11MI
>   divert point from main road           40.924538, -119.141922  BR- 
> DVRT
>   exit trail intercept point            40.953326, -119.037724  BR- 
> ETIP
>   Black Rock Hot Springs playa entrance 40.966306, -119.019167  BR- 
> BREN
>   Black Rock Hot Springs trail jct      40.973434, -119.008407  BR- 
> BRHS
>   Upper Hi-Dry camp site                40.989444, -118.964861  BR- 
> UHDC
>
> This is the procedure:
> 1) Enter the Black Rock playa at the 11-mile entrance (BR-11MI)
> 2) Follow the main trail up the west side to the Divert Point (BR- 
> DVRT)
> 3) From BR-DVRT, travel GPS-direct to the Exit Trail Intercept Point  
> (BR-ETIP)
> 4) From BR-ETIP, follow the trail to the Black Rock playa exit (BR- 
> BREN)
> 5) Continue straight NE at the Black Rock Hot Springs trail junction  
> (BR-BRHS)
> 6) Be careful on the climb up to Lower High Dry - ravines are on  
> both sides.
>   We call that the "sobriety test section". :-)
> 7) Follow the dam/berm at Lower High Dry to the NW side where  
> there's an easy
>   entrance to the lakebed.
> 8) Follow the trail to Upper High Dry.  We'll camp behind the island  
> (BR-UHDC)
>
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