google earth and winching...

the other luke · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Sep 2011 Posts: 140 City: Cincinnati

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knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

Where are the pictures and addresses of your 11 spots?

Randomhero14 · Frontside 180 Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 346

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

the other luke, people don't keep their spots secret because they want to shred them alone.. when spots get blown up and getting kicked out becomes more frequent, cops get sick of it and start slapping trespassing warrants on everyone.

I tell everyone where spots are when they come into town.. as long as you let me get a few pulls in with your winch. Haha..

No one is being a whiney beach.. It's the same with all the other sports.. skating, surfing, snowboarding...

SwissArmyKnife · Pop Shuvit Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 152 City: PawPaw

found a few new spots last night... the trick is phrasing, was seaching "southern michigan dams" because rivers are generally smaller in michigan. probably wouldn't work in places where your rivers are large, no one is gonna winch the Hoover Dam ya know.

Question

When you search for spots/leads on spots to winch, What do you phrase to you use when you search? Question

How do you go about searching? Straight to googlemaps? Google spillway/waterfall lists? Question

there are some naturalist/conservation groups around here that actually have a website with dam names and locations with google maps. searched the dam name and found a few photos aor a few spots.

here is a taste of what can be found!

Steven M · Posted: Sep 24, 2011 10:36 am Post subject:

You guys do it the hard way. I just take my 5yr old nephew strap a gopro to his head and send him down a river on an inntertube with some gummy snacks and caprisuns. I pick him up down river and look at the footage.

SwissArmyKnife · Pop Shuvit Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 152 City: PawPaw

Steven M, high five! I got to play on rivers when I was that age too! SO much fun. I feel like most parents now-a-days won't let stuff like that fly. You ever watch "Lassie"? Where were that kids parents? The kid could outlast Bear Grylls(sp?) in the Rocky Mtns. while saving some miners from a colapsed mine-shaft!

Brett Leadley · Posted: Sep 24, 2011 11:38 am Post subject:

http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20864

southpaw · Posted: Sep 27, 2011 12:24 pm Post subject:

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

the real trick to finding all the gaps ---is in finding Kayak forums in your area
Twisted Evil

texasT · Posted: Sep 27, 2011 12:49 pm Post subject:

Jake S · Backside 180 Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Posts: 683 City: SLC

The Kid,

my spots are open to those that want to ride and come out with myself and friends, but im not going to just tell a bunch of people to go there etc. spots are rare enough out here.

paulmc · Posted: Oct 03, 2011 6:33 am Post subject:

spowell · Posted: Oct 05, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject:

paulmc, i'm glad you flaunted the old geography link because i was about to!

Bamalurker · Posted: Oct 12, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject:

I like to use google images in conjunction with google earth/maps. Say for instance I find a dan on google earth; then on google images type in dam and the city and state that you located it at. 9 times outta 10 there's plenty of pics. I've also noticed that a large number of spots I find are on a road named sumthing with the word mill in it. Like our most recent spot was on teds mill road. I typed in teds mill and tons of pics popes up.