Route Picture of the Day Appreciation Thread
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Nov 2019
1:25pm, 12 Nov 2019
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fetcheveryone
I'm guessing that the sampled elevation is taken from the top of that bridge.
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Nov 2019
1:25pm, 12 Nov 2019
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Diogenes
Looks like a bridge over the road bridge
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Nov 2019
1:28pm, 12 Nov 2019
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GordonG
i'd assumed that, but when linked to the map that spike appears to be in parkland.
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Nov 2019
1:33pm, 12 Nov 2019
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SailorSteve
The elevation? I don’t know. All of my routes are plotted manually (I don’t use a watch) and I don’t use the “follow roads” option because I believe it saves fetch a little bit of money if we don’t, so the plot can deviate off track quite a bit. Maybe my track inadvertently took in an adjacent bump?!
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Nov 2019
1:34pm, 12 Nov 2019
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Diogenes
There's a skate park there, maybe Steve jumped on a board and went up a ramp? google.com |
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Nov 2019
1:35pm, 12 Nov 2019
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SailorSteve
....or yes, one of the pylons of the Vasco da Gama bridge!!
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Nov 2019
1:39pm, 12 Nov 2019
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SailorSteve
the trail goes underneath the Vasco road bridge and adjacent to the skate park - which is currently being rebuilt
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Nov 2019
9:39am, 20 Nov 2019
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GordonG
love today's pic. looks like the best ever Wendy house!
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Nov 2019
9:43am, 20 Nov 2019
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GordonG
I'd assumed that the pic was taken in Switzerland or somewhere like that. Turns out it's just SE of Plymouth 
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Nov 2019
10:33am, 20 Nov 2019
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um
Gordon - if you listen to the podcasts, or read some of the swimmers blogs, this is near the end of the Bantham Swoosh event, and I guess, a fairly noticeable landmark that swimmers are pleased to see? The Bantham Swoosh involves swimmers going into the water at Aveton Gifford and swimming downstream for six kilometres on the outgoing tide. As they pass Bantham’s iconic pink boathouse at Jenkins Quay, they experience a ‘swoosh’ as the current pulls them round the corner at up to four times their usual swimming speed. |
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