Edward,

If you recover this intact, are you good for the L3 Cert?

How about a search party for the missing rockets tomorrow afternoon?

If you guys are thinking about going out again while the transmitter is still running, the bluffs would make an excellent location for the radio scan. The one that's the 2nd from the right in the picture below has a commanding view of your whole likely landing area, which is mostly to the right of where this picture is looking.

Here is a topo .PDF that I made of the area, I marked all the high points.

http://www.alphahybrids.com/Media/TopoMap.pdf

Edward

That's a beautiful map. Where did it come from?

Now I know where that nonexistant, mystery road in Google maps came from: the jeep track that was visible when the USGS created this topo, probably decades ago.

I have the USGS topo maps for Colorado on CD. They are a very nice resource. The map for this quadrant is called Chalk Bluffs East. Circa 1972. I purchased these in 2003 so that part is fairly recent. If you'd like I can get you a .pdf version that doesn't have my scribblings.

Edward

FWIW, I searched for two days when I lost Carbon Diem last year, and I was sure I'd never see it again. So I printed some small "reward if found" signs with the rocket description and my contact info. I had them laminated and then I stapled them to about ten telephone poles and fence posts north and east of the launch site. Specifically at the Tee where CR122 ends and then north on CR 124, 125 and 126. It was only about a week later when I got a call from a rancher who found the rocket while riding his horse checking up on his stock tanks.

Definately worth the effort and the $20 or so I spent on the signs and the reward I gave to the rancher.

Ken.

Ed, where did you get the Colorado topo maps on CD? whats the disclaimer on the CD? If its created by USGS, should be public domain and ok to copy.

I have been trying to find em on USGS site but unable to so far... there are lots of references to "digital data for purchase on cdrom" but i cannot seem to find where to do so.

Download them here

Thanks Chris, i saw that... those are helpful scans of the 7.5 minute quads we used to buy at Chinook in Colo Springs.

But Ed's map seems different and quite a bit crisper, and there is definitely alot to be said for having the whole state on CDROMs instead of downloading one quad at a time.