As a few of you know, I've been been more than a little preoccupied with a permanent relocation to the wilds of New Mexico, which now seems to be settling down. This has been going on, more or less, for the past 6 months, hence I've been extremely derelict in keeping up with my website housekeeping duties. I have several substantial website projects which have been on hold for the duration, including an excellent Bayesian analysis done by a contact of mine for potential Ewasko search areas. Now that I've opened my mouth about it, I'll be forced to write it up and get it online. That's my first priority in updating my web site.
That said, I've noticed there have been others collecting and posting Ewasko search tracks, which is great. Had I not been distracted with my move, I would have been doing just that. So as a "quicky", I'll throw out a couple of track collections for anyone interested to download. I'll just post links here, and MAYBE add them to my website at some later date. No promises as I have a crapload of catching up to do.
The first is a collection of tracks from the Orbeso/Nguyen search which covered pertinent areas to Ewasko. The records contain a lot of SPOT positions, which were generated by searchers with SPOT beacons and just were positions are regular intervals but no tracks. What I did was create polygons of the areas in Google Earth which contained the SPOT locations thus representing areas searched and cleared. I'm not sure if those polygons will transfer correctly to my kmz extract so we'll see. Also included are helicopter search tracks for what they are worth.
Here is a link to my Orbeso tracksThe second package are some impressive tracks from 2014 on the southerly slopes of Smith Water near its westerly end. For a couple of reasons the source of these tracks will remain anonymous, the main reason being I don't have explicit permission to publish the tracks (there's also another reason which I won't mention). Since I wasn't specifically told NOT to publish and now others may be planning what could be dangerous trips into areas they perceive as previously unsearched, I've stripped identifying info from them and offer them up at the link below.
Anonymous Smith Water search tracksSlowly getting back up to speed.....