Hiking Up the Mountain

Over the most recent holiday weekend (October 23rd is Chulalongkorn Day) it was great to get out of the city and visit the province of Ratchaburi, just west of Bangkok and bordering Myanmar.

There are quite a few hiking trails in the area and we chose Khao Laem Suan Phueng, apparently a well-known trail and frequented by trail-runners, day-hikers (like us), and I guess anyone else who's interested in getting outside!

Since I enjoy data I tracked the hike on my Garmin watch, which provided location data (in addition to heart-rate, timing, steps, etc). I was able to pull that out (with help from Garmin, this YouTuber, and this data science guy). I also wrote a little script to extract and transform the data in C# using Visual Studio, posting it to GitHub. It seems that not so many people have extracted their data, but it's fun solving problems that no one has considered! 

Anyway, below are the results from importing the location data to GoogleMaps and using their 3D/Earth view to visualize the route.

My watch indicates that we went from ~1100ft elevation to 3700ft, so ~2600ft of rise, which seems like a lot more than I would have thought! It wasn't (in my opinion) an overly long or exerting hike, but a great day!


Link to the map I created (if this doesn't show up, please leave a comment):

https://www.google.com/maps/@13.5105883,99.2391991,1621a,35y,315.23h,65.42t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!6m1!1s1LWHXyLKDtyz2Fss2MS2NQQheWYjrahk










Comments

  1. DaphneNovember 1, 2022 at 12:26 PM

    Can you explain what the blue dots represent? They don't appear in equal distance when I zoom in.

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    1. Cory B.November 2, 2022 at 8:11 AM

      Location coordinates (latitude and longitude). They're based on time, so faster pace = fewer points.

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