Not far to go now
Naomi Peak is the highest point in Cache county Utah. It's a pleasant hike of
about 6 miles round trip with a modest elevation gain. Tree cover and terrain
are moderate, thus they don't cause many problems reception wise. As you
can see by looking at the track/map data, the actual trail doesn't follow that shown on the map for the entire
distance. On this trip, I used the Legend carried on top of the pack strap on my
left shoulder. I saved, then cleared the tracklog once I got to the top of the
mountain. The difference on the way up vs. the way down is because of the need to
route find on the way up due to a steep snowy area we had to divert around.
While climbing it wasn't practical, we had a blast sliding down. As a result, we
were able to pretty much follow the trail on the way back down. The side trip at
the top of the mountain was to find the Geocache on top of the mountain.
For this short side trip, my daughter left her pack sitting on the peak and
didn't use her GPS. Once again, my legend seemed to pretty much record the route I actually
took. My daughter however got very different results with her basic eTrex. She
carries it hooked to her belt, which generally results in terrible results such
as the ones you can view here. You'll see on her tracklog that vertically
carrying the eTrex results in lost reception, and significant positional errors
fairly often.
Legend track overlaid on TOPO Map
file size 454kb
Basic eTrex track overlaid on TOPO Map
file size 666kb
Legend track data
basic eTrex track data
