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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Quetico Forum Quetico portage scare! Reply |
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Author | Message Text |
mgraber |
03/22/2018 10:11PMThwarted: "Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. +1 This is the best way. Example: 1226 meters, round off last number =123 X 2=246 rods Easy peasy. Dividing 1226 by 5 is much harder for most people. |
zski |
03/21/2018 09:05AMGraniteCliffs: "Way too complicated for me! I just think "this a kind of long portage" and put my head down and go. It is not so much the distance for me but rather the portage itself that makes it hard or easy so I don't get too agitated about the rods or meters."+1 |
GraniteCliffs |
03/17/2018 10:37PM Way too complicated for me! I just think "this a kind of long portage" and put my head down and go. It is not so much the distance for me but rather the portage itself that makes it hard or easy so I don't get too agitated about the rods or meters. |
carmike |
03/14/2018 10:12PMHighnDry: "And watching for that speed trap from the bridge coming out of town past the First Nations village. I've seen a few folks with US plates pulled over there by the OP!" I thought I saw you drive by. :) |
HighnDry |
03/14/2018 03:45PM Multiply your kms by 0.6 and you'll get close enough to mph to know your speed. (The conversion factor is actually 0.6237, but I never bother going beyond the first two digits when I'm driving.) |
fishonfishoff |
03/14/2018 02:43PM Wow, I thought my only issue was too long of portages (when I thought they were measured in rods instead of meters). Now I have to worry about speed traps and doing advanced math? Maybe we should do the Quetico trip on youtube instead of actual life! .................Nah, we'll still go, it's just part of the adventure. FISHONFISHOFF |
HighnDry |
03/14/2018 09:31AM And watching for that speed trap from the bridge coming out of town past the First Nations village. I've seen a few folks with US plates pulled over there by the OP! |
carmike |
03/13/2018 11:02PM I always have a related thought the first time I get on the highway east of Ft. Frances, heading to the Q...and then I realize the speed limit is in km/hr instead of miles. :) |
mastertangler |
03/13/2018 10:51AM Just put yer head down and get hoofin it. "No talky, talky, back to work!!" (Asian accent)..... is what I tell my guys if they are stalling. |
rdricker |
03/12/2018 09:38PM Meters aren't too hard...I just think of a 100m as a football field and figure how many fields it is. That's close enough to me to get a feel. |
HighnDry |
03/12/2018 08:07PMboonie: "Thwarted: "Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. +1! |
boonie |
03/12/2018 07:50PMThwarted: "boonie: "Don't try that advanced math stuff on me buster. I still can get it wrong doing it the "easy" way."Thwarted: "Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. :) Couldn't resist, but actually I think dividing by 10 and doubling is probably just as quick and easy on average. |
Thwarted |
03/12/2018 07:46PMboonie: "Don't try that advanced math stuff on me buster. I still can get it wrong doing it the "easy" way.Thwarted: "Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. |
boonie |
03/12/2018 07:42PMOldFingers57: "boonie: "I've become used to rods and I think it's pretty easy, but I don't try to get it down to feet or yards. I just figure that since 320 rods = 1 mile, that 160 = 1/2, 80 = 1/4, 40 = 1/8, 240 = 3/4, 200 = 5/8, etc.. That's about as close as I need to know it. On the other hand, meters get me even if I start thinking of them as yards - now how many miles is 660 yards? That's when I start scratching my head ;). " I think that whatever a person is used to or learns works for them. I, on the other hand, just think of a mile race as a mile or a quarter mile race as a quarter mile, not yards. But I did finally learn with some effort to convert metric road races to miles, or more accurately I eventually memorized 5K, 10K, etc. I'll have to work on meters some more, I guess. |
boonie |
03/12/2018 07:37PMThwarted: "Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. I found I could just divide by 5 ;) |
fishonfishoff |
03/12/2018 03:06PMbillconner: "I'm with Boonie - I agree it would make my job a lot easier. Now I have to have both metric and standard tools. Use both mm and inches. Microns and microinches,etc... I do remember when they thought about changing and I was pro metric |
fishonfishoff |
03/12/2018 03:06PMbillconner: "I'm with Boonie - I agree it would make my job a lot easier. Now I have to have both metric and standard tools. Use both mm and inches. Microns and microinches,etc... I do remember when they thought about changing and I was pro metric |
fishonfishoff |
03/12/2018 03:06PMbillconner: "I'm with Boonie - I agree it would make my job a lot easier. Now I have to have both metric and standard tools. Use both mm and inches. Microns and microinches,etc... I do remember when they thought about changing and I was pro metric |
OldFingers57 |
03/12/2018 11:48AMboonie: "I've become used to rods and I think it's pretty easy, but I don't try to get it down to feet or yards. I just figure that since 320 rods = 1 mile, that 160 = 1/2, 80 = 1/4, 40 = 1/8, 240 = 3/4, 200 = 5/8, etc.. That's about as close as I need to know it. On the other hand, meters get me even if I start thinking of them as yards - now how many miles is 660 yards? That's when I start scratching my head ;). " I guess from running track its easy to figure 440 yards is a 1/4 mile, 880 is 1/2 mile and so on. |
Thwarted |
03/12/2018 08:59AM Easy conversion. Divide meters by 10 then double. As stated by Bill, 200 meters=40 rods. I like my Chrismar. Great Quetico planning tool. |
billconner |
03/12/2018 06:59AM I'm with Boonie - used to rods but convert to miles. So with Chrismar 200m is close to 1/8 mile. I could use 100 m to 1/16 mile but I'm satisfied with 40 rods so 200. If only the US had followed through with metrification in the 1960s.... |
boonie |
03/11/2018 07:21PM I've become used to rods and I think it's pretty easy, but I don't try to get it down to feet or yards. I just figure that since 320 rods = 1 mile, that 160 = 1/2, 80 = 1/4, 40 = 1/8, 240 = 3/4, 200 = 5/8, etc.. That's about as close as I need to know it. On the other hand, meters get me even if I start thinking of them as yards - now how many miles is 660 yards? That's when I start scratching my head ;). |
OldFingers57 |
03/11/2018 01:56PM That’s what I like about that map. Since a meter is just about a yard it’s easier than figuring out the dang rods to feet or yards. |
fishonfishoff |
03/11/2018 12:41PM I just opened my new Chrismar map of Quetico to route our journey. I started looking at portage lengths and "about bit the big one"! Those are extremely long!!! Then I looked at the legend and saw they were in meters instead of rods. WHEW!!!!!! Much more manageable. "Another part of the Quetico learning curve." FISHONFISHOFF |