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Sunday long walk: From house, go to main road. Go up road to Oregon Road. Down Oregon Road to Red Bank Trail. Make left on Red Bank, go down hill, cross old turnpike, cross creek (frozen), go up mountain to top. Make left, walk along ridge to road up to Hull's, run down road to Hull's to house.

Here's a map, my route drawn in blue. If you want to trace it, it's kind of counter-clockwise, starting near the most-indented part.

7.75 miles according to google maps
2 hrs 35 min for a pace of 3 mph

Ambient temp was about 16F. Mostly I wasn't cold except for the wind on the ridge a little. Heels of feet started to feel a little raw about mile 6 but are unblistered. Dunno except maybe wool socks got wet from snow and then chapped or something?

This was not one of my better walking efforts -- I dawdled a bit and took pictures of critter footprints (appearing in another post, here directly). Even so, not sure I could have gotten to 4 mph without the dawdling. This was cold and a hell of a schlep. Red Bank is not a friendly, fun trail. I could maybe manage 3.5 mph without the dicking around. Maybe I'll try again next weekend.

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Does googlemaps let you measure a route directly? I've had to use bikely.com to measure my bike rides, but their interface is kind of clunky. I'd much prefer to use g-maps themselves.

Google maps measures-as-you-draw. You draw where you want to go, and it tells you how far that is. I generally use the aerial photographs to draw (because I can see the trails cut into the hill a lot better) but I switched to contour overlay here so that you could see the shape of the land better. The contour overlay also doesn't zoom as far as the photograph view.

Google maps also has a "draw the line along the road" utility that doesn't do much for me because I don't have roads where I go sometimes... but if your routes are more road-ish than trail-ish, might be worth trying that out.

I'd give it a whirl, see if you can get it to do what you need.

Ah, thanks, that's great. I hadn't thought to look in Labs.