Bob has so many hikes documented that I generally want to search through visually by location, so I put together a little script to grab all the relevant data to produce google map and google earth views of all the summits he's bagged. Click on the summit and you get go to his TR.

MAPS

Printing Burd maps is almost the only thing I still use a printer for

BTW FYI, I did ask Bob if I could post this online.

Don't you love it when you click the map seeing all those little Bob Burds!

I thought about making a custom avatar with his head on the top of the stick dude but maybe that's going too far!

Ze is a bit of a stalker huh?

That's cool, thx. It'd be neat to have a phone app that has all these tracks

Vitaliy M. wrote:Ze is a bit of a stalker huh?

Who doesn't love stalking?

Vitaly I just downloaded your entire blog, made this pic my desktop background hope you don't mind!

His maps are very good, considering that he does all the stuff by non-gps, from memory. But I have found little hiccups in areas of rough terrain.

I like his trip reports, and his SP contributions on the Sierra are among the best beta. One amusing sidelight-- he wrote that the route to Polemonium from the notch was "class 3," and many people have questioned whether this is massive sand-bagging.

Once I was trying to convince another fellow to try a different tack, because "that's where Bob Burd went." As luck would have it, that fellow had tried to follow Bob's "class 3" route on Polemonium-- and unleashed a withering commentary on the trustworthiness of Bob's routes. Well, I've never tried his Polemonium route, but all the others that I've tried seemed to be accurate.

toxo wrote:No, I think it's not going far enough.

+1

LOL!

MoapaPk wrote:His maps are very good, considering that he does all the stuff by non-gps, from memory. But I have found little hiccups in areas of rough terrain.

I like his trip reports, and his SP contributions on the Sierra are among the best beta. One amusing sidelight-- he wrote that the route to Polemonium from the notch was "class 3," and many people have questioned whether this is massive sand-bagging.

Once I was trying to convince another fellow to try a different tack, because "that's where Bob Burd went." As luck would have it, that fellow had tried to follow Bob's "class 3" route on Polemonium-- and unleashed a withering commentary on the trustworthiness of Bob's routes. Well, I've never tried his Polemonium route, but all the others that I've tried seemed to be accurate.

The route page from the U-Notch hasn't changed since 2003 and it's always been class 4, the original rating up through Roper's guide. Secor bumped it up to class 5.2. I honestly couldn't tell you what the difference is between YDS 4 and 5.2. But I'm glad I was able to instill such vigorous opinions in your friend. It warms my heart.

Bob Burd wrote:The route page from the U-Notch hasn't changed since 2003 and it's always been class 4, the original rating up through Roper's guide. Secor bumped it up to class 5.2. I honestly couldn't tell you what the difference is between YDS 4 and 5.2. But I'm glad I was able to instill such vigorous opinions in your friend. It warms my heart.

I think he had read this:
" I dropped my load of slings here and headed up the regular route to Polemonium Peak. This is the easiest peak in the bunch here, mostly class 3 with a few tougher class 4 sections." Actually from http://www.snwburd.com/bob/trip_reports ... olt_2.html.

I could tell other stories about his vigorous opinions (on route directions), but I better stop before I get in trouble.

EDIT: You are totally correct assigning YDS class 4 to a route with "mostly class 3" and some class 4... but some folks see what they want to see when they read route descriptions.

Burd's website is like the Beatles Anthology

The TRs also have a bit of humor. I just read about Pico Risco and found myself laughing at the end.