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jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

[City Labyrinth] Austin, USA

**Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:05 pm

dreamerblue

I like how nice and straight all the paths are...actually, I'm kind of jealous (as I'm still grumbling about the southern part of our Toronto labyrinth, heh Smile

). Have you figured out how long the path is? If you do plan to walk it, make sure the distance is reasonable (and/or recruit relay partners Smile

).

**Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:09 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

yeah- I think it's more than 15 miles long. We'll need automobile assistance, but the paths are so straight because they go where no car can go. Also, walking would have to start at an early hour- I've been amused at people calling 10 am early in threads here.

**Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:14 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

Okay, so, I received the trackstick and enough tattoos and stickers for an army. I want to act on this with as little delay as possible, so if anyone can join in, let me know when you can participate. This weekend we'll do some practice/trials, and maybe July 5 or 6 we'll walk the big walk? If holiday plans interfere with a weekend date, maybe we can try week night a evening.

ETA: test of the trackstick downtown amid tall-ish buildings. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2619204335_59058669d3.jpg?v=0 No problems while driving because downtown Austin has plenty of sky, but the path goes kooky on the sections where I walked (instead of driving) north up Congress Avenue. That won't be part of the omph knot, but I was curious about it. Also, there were a couple of places in the over all test where the trackstick shows an inexplicable jump off course. One makes a sharp jag through about three blocks. What gives?

Edit again: we have a team of 5 in Austin and will be making this Omph Knot Sunday July 6 in morning. We're handing the trackstick off between a walking team and a cyclist and a driver. A section of road at the bottom left corner that was there last Saturday got ripped out this week, much to my amusement. I'm writing a script to help us with making the hand offs.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:58 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

Some photos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24918130@N03/sets/72157604205307006/
We took a lot more than this- more than anyone can stand to look at. And we took video too, but that will take some time. And then we broke the Trackstick by accidentally sending it flying into the street and breaking the on-off switch. So, we'll see what we can so about that. Embarassed

**Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:21 pm

lhall

**Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:06 pm

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amaretto01 · Boot Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 14

Another run anytime soon?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:17 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

Re: Another run anytime soon?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:47 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

So, double posting again-

amaretto01 let me know if this weekend, Saturday or Sunday you would like to give it a go. I told Eli that Austin would try ours again, though he seems to say we might not need to for the Omph Knot to count.

Lacking Trackstick data from the first try, I gave Eli our route map as a google earth overlay and the script we used to make the relay hand-offs along with start and end times. He said this in reply:

**Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:53 pm

AUZ505

I am confused (or Ariadne is confused).
The Austin labyrinth has been posted as new labyrinth on July 14 and again today at July 22 together with Cambridge and Duncan.

(The OMPHSTRENGTH command just added one new labyrinth. Which one?)

**Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:49 pm

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