Anybody ever use this elevation feature of ONX? Is this gonna be to steep to hike up?
ONX elevation question
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Re: ONX elevation question
That calculates to a 27% grade or 27 feet up for every 100 feet horizontal distance.
Set a twelve inch ruler on your desk and raise one end to 2.7 inches above the table at the ten inch mark to give you a visual idea of the grade.
Certainly walkable.
Set a twelve inch ruler on your desk and raise one end to 2.7 inches above the table at the ten inch mark to give you a visual idea of the grade.
Certainly walkable.
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Switch to topo mode on your map and it’s pretty obvious where the steep climbs will be. Doesn’t get any easier than that visual.
I also like Lidar. Wish they would add that hill shading feature to Onx.
I also like Lidar. Wish they would add that hill shading feature to Onx.
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KRONIIK wrote:That calculates to a 27% grade or 27 feet up for every 100 feet horizontal distance.
Set a twelve inch ruler on your desk and raise one end to 2.7 inches above the table at the ten inch mark to give you a visual idea of the grade.
Certainly walkable.
Thanks, I was figuring rise over run, but I forgot I was calculating yards instead of feet, I was coming up with 81% grade!!!, I thought that didnt match the topo lines!!
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No problem on your slope. If it’s not rock cliffs you can probably walk it. I just checked one of my spots almost 500 ft elevation in a little over 200 yds. It can be done and it’s nothing to a deer
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Re: ONX elevation question
Pudster wrote:KRONIIK wrote:That calculates to a 27% grade or 27 feet up for every 100 feet horizontal distance.
Set a twelve inch ruler on your desk and raise one end to 2.7 inches above the table at the ten inch mark to give you a visual idea of the grade.
Certainly walkable.
Thanks, I was figuring rise over run, but I forgot I was calculating yards instead of feet, I was coming up with 81% grade!!!, I thought that didnt match the topo lines!!
I almost did the same thing when I went to figure it.
That would be pretty steep but some of the hills here in Sauk County are worse than even that.
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Ha, I have seen some of those steep hills there. The weirdest thing I ran into in that county was a couple of woods or areas of woods that were so darn rocky that it made walking thru them very difficult, next to impossible. I was going thru them in the spring at it was "not fun," I cant imagine going thru them when the underbrush is green and lush.
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Pudster wrote:Ha, I have seen some of those steep hills there. The weirdest thing I ran into in that county was a couple of woods or areas of woods that were so darn rocky that it made walking thru them very difficult, next to impossible. I was going thru them in the spring at it was "not fun," I cant imagine going thru them when the underbrush is green and lush.
I hear you.
There are granite boulder fields throughout the Baraboo Range that are worse than anything I ever encountered in Montana, Idaho, Colorado, California or Wyoming.
Loose blocks about the size of microwave oven, tippy and rocking with every step.
Leg-breakers, big-time.
And absolutely TERRIBLE in the winter when wet and icy.
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Re: ONX elevation question
If I'm not sure it's doable on OnX, I double check on CalTopo. Has helped me a lot in the TN mountains.
Purple is a cliff/bluff face, red could get dicey:
Purple is a cliff/bluff face, red could get dicey:
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