Anybody been to stranger hills recently?

[catman1]

Has anybody been out to stranger hills this spring yet? Wondering what the riding is like there for quads? Planning on heading there with the wife on Friday April 18th

 

[whoDEANie]

The ATV club trail boss tells me that it's really frigg'n wet out there right now with lots of deep water. We're hoping people will steer clear from there for a few weeks until it dries up a bit so that the trail doesn't get too badly damaged.

 

[northern bear]

ThAt trail damaged? Didn't think it could get much worse. Now would be the time while the frost is in the ground. Once the frost is gone it's pretty much impassable.

 

[whoDEANie]

Yeah, I haven't personally been out there since before it was officially opened up but I hear it's pretty bad. The ATV club was planning to fix up the swampy section last season but it was so wet we couldn't get anyone to touch it. We likely have a bunch of rig mats lined up which will hopefully help a lot.

 

[catman1]

Thanks guys , I didn't realize it was such a swampy area. Maybe ill phone the club on Thursday and see if it's open.

 

[whoDEANie]

Thanks guys , I didn't realize it was such a swampy area. Maybe ill phone the club on Thursday and see if it's open.

The trail is currently open, so you should be OK for now. However, once the frost starts to lift, we'll probably close it down for a bit.
I know a few people went out there last spring only to find the trails closed, so we're trying to figure out a better way to communicate the trail status to everyone. ...perhaps on the front page of our website (www.LacSteAnneAtvClub.com).

 

[whoDEANie]

Catman, did you end up heading down there on Friday? One of the club executives took a trip down there on Saturday to check it out and found it to be pretty passible for the time being - still a fair amount of snow on the trails.

 

[catman1]

No I never made it down there, weather was kinda crappy on Friday .

 

[Mike270412]

You guys are talking about Stanger,correct?

 

[whoDEANie]

You guys are talking about Stanger,correct?

Yup. Good catch.

 

[whoDEANie]

Yeah, I haven't personally been out there since before it was officially opened up but I hear it's pretty bad. The ATV club was planning to fix up the swampy section last season but it was so wet we couldn't get anyone to touch it. We likely have a bunch of rig mats lined up which will hopefully help a lot.

Just an update that we managed to lay an addition 14 fibreglass "ATV" mats in a couple of the worse sections. There's still some work to do, but hopefully we'll be in much better shape this spring with the work that was done so far.

 

[AB RANGER 007]

Would you have the GPS location"s for these Pix.

Bruce.

 

[whoDEANie]

You bet Bruce. I never did get the location of the ones we laid down last year.

11 mats placed at N 53 41.150 W 114 47.508
3 mats placed at N 53 41.197 W 114 47.779

 

[AB RANGER 007]

Why it it so hard to get GPS information and some GOOD JPG'S of GPS Maps for this area from the club??? The ones on their site is a joke. I have been following Reg Faulkner's Photo Shoot of the Lac St Anne Trail (Stanger Hills) on the Panoramio Photo's Site and have put to-gether some 50+ waypoints and pictures from his camera's geotaged pictures, that uses the degrees/min/ sec-sec, format.

Bruce.

 

[TylerG]

Why it it so hard to get GPS information and some GOOD JPG'S of GPS Maps for this area from the club??? The ones on their site is a joke. I have been following Reg Faulkner's Photo Shoot of the Lac St Anne Trail (Stanger Hills) on the Panoramio Photo's Site and have put to-gether some 50+ waypoints and pictures from his camera's geotaged pictures, that uses the degrees/min/ sec-sec, format.

Bruce.

sounds like you've just volunteered to go out and do just that for the club Bruce.

 

[AB RANGER 007]

Are you telling me that you donot ride with a GPS unit and do not have any Mapping Software. I went on a club ride in 2012 06 02 and got as far as this track and got stuck with my PR 6X6 and had to get pulled out buy 2 Quads with winches,every one had allready gone off trail to go further. STAY on the TRAILS, club rules??? and we wonder way the area gets chewd up.The riders that pulled me out called to the staging area to find out how to get back, because they were stuck.

Bruce.

 

[whoDEANie]

I've been meaning to post a GPS track up on the website for a while. I think I'm the only one on the club board that usually carries a GPS. The only time I've ever been there is to do maintenance, so I've never ridden the trail start to finish to get a clean GPS track. I'd also like to map out some of the "satellite trails" that are available to us in the sledding off season. If we do post something up, I'd prefer that it's clean, accurate, and complete. That said, the multi-use trail is pretty short, has at least three map signs posted up on the trail, and has all the main points and intersections signed - I was planning to post up the GPS track just for "bling" on the website.

 

[whoDEANie]

Why it it so hard to get GPS information and some GOOD JPG'S of GPS Maps for this area from the club??? The ones on their site is a joke. I have been following Reg Faulkner's Photo Shoot of the Lac St Anne Trail (Stanger Hills) on the Panoramio Photo's Site and have put to-gether some 50+ waypoints and pictures from his camera's geotaged pictures, that uses the degrees/min/ sec-sec, format.

Bruce.

lol, a savy GPS user such as yourself can't do the conversion? OK, ok, I'll spoon feed them to you a number of different ways...

Latitude	N 53 41.150
Longitude	W 114 47.508
Calculated Values - based on Degrees Lat Long to seven decimal places.
Position Type	Lat Lon
Degrees Lat Long	53.6858333°, -114.7918000°
Degrees Minutes	53°41.15000', -114°47.50800'
Degrees Minutes Seconds	53°41'09.0000", -114°47'30.4800"
UTM	11U 645823mE 5950833mN
MGRS	11UPV4582350833
Grid North	1.8°
Maidenhead	DO23OQ44XO64
GEOREF	EKFJ12494115

Latitude	N 53 41.197
Longitude	W 114 47.779
Calculated Values - based on Degrees Lat Long to seven decimal places.
Position Type	Lat Lon
Degrees Lat Long	53.6866167°, -114.7963167°
Degrees Minutes	53°41.19700', -114°47.77900'
Degrees Minutes Seconds	53°41'11.8200", -114°47'46.7400"
UTM	11U 645522mE 5950910mN
MGRS	11UPV4552250910
Grid North	1.8°
Maidenhead	DO23OQ44KS69
GEOREF	EKFJ12224119

 

[AB RANGER 007]

GOLLY GEE !, and all the time I was just using GPSSway to do my conversions. And after doing some 50 + on this project I will move on to some where else. My BUCKET LIST is over flowing and needs to be looked into.

Incase some one is interested, attached is a PIX of the data that I have from the Reg Faulkners photos, and if you have Garmin MapSource in/ on your computer, I can send you this file direct to you, need e Mail address.

Bruce.

 

[whoDEANie]

I'm sorry for the snide remark Bruce. It was uncalled for. Please don't interpret my poor sense of humor as a lack of appreciation for all you've done for the club.