Traces by User "Germaine"
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Trace by: Germaine
Location: Iona Beach spit, Vancouver
Distance: 8.8
A neat feature in Vancouver, this 4.4km human-made spit extends straight out into the Georgia Straight from the mouth of the Fraser River.
Date: 04 August, 20150 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Dallas
Distance: 2.68 km
This is possibly the worst square ever. It went awry when I missed the intersection where I planned to turn. Then the city grid changed. The bleachers at Dallas City Hall were left over from a parade the previous day.
Date: 08 December, 20140 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Halifax
Distance: 7.99 km
I chose a location in Halifax that looked like it would correspond well with the long, quite straight, walk towards a loop in a golf course. I chose to go over the Macdonald Bridge that links Halifax and Dartmouth, on a windy, rainy day. My walk also led to a golf course, like the original….
Date: 13 October, 20141 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Vancouver, BC
Distance: 1.44 km
I thought this track would correspond quite well with the outline of Trout Lake, a small lake within the city limits of Vancouver. That turned out to be somewhat accurate. A handy dock served to bring me at least part-way into the middle of the lake, as the track would have required.
Date: 27 June, 20140 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Distance: 2.6 km
I did this one from memory, remembering that the track had two short spurs and a gentle curve, though I didn’t remember the direction of the curve. I simply followed the shoreline, only straightening my path at one end. On my trace, one spur records me getting across the highway to the lakeshore, and the…
Date: 12 May, 20141 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Distance: 1.8 km
Transposed to a different administrative centre — the City Hall area of Windsor, Ontario — what became clear right away was the different scale. The entire track covers just a few city blocks in this flat city, but it includes both small houses and large public buildings. I identified a likely starting point, went there,…
Date: 08 May, 20144 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver
Distance: 2.04 km
This didn’t turn out as well as I thought it would. I picked a location that had interesting similarities to the Citadel: a somewhat ceremonial site on top of a hill — the Queen Elizabeth Park botanical garden. It started out great, but went awry when I had to bushwhack and got myself a bit…
Date: 27 April, 20141 -
Trace by: Germaine
Location: Halifax, NS
Distance: 8.9 km
Edith and I had the idea of trying to trace this track beginning at the same street name (Windsor Street), but in a different city. We printed the track onto a Google map of Halifax, and recorded the trace using a GPS tracking app called My Tracks. Interestingly, the Halifax starting-point also took us through…
Date: 16 April, 20143
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