First up was the Mirror Lake area. Someone had added Yellow Pine Trail since the creation of my Colorado-Utah download from OpenAndroMaps. That’s good, because I didn’t have a track for all of it. I added details at the Provo Falls turnout. I didn’t add that it’s a paid thing (via the Mirror Lake Recreation Pass thingy) as are most, but NOT ALL, parking areas in this area. This is something that can be added.

Lots of good stuff already here, but signs are mostly missing. Even at the western trailhead for the Uinta Highline there was no information sign marked. I like knowing there’s going to be a sign at the intersection coming up, but never realized it could be mapped until I saw it rendered. Added those. Added a bench on Whiskey Creek. Corrected some names around the Main Fork. Stillwater Trail is a different thing a little to the east and this is the Main Fork for sure. Says right there. Lots of little things.

Was pretty much little things for the area around Red Castle Lake and [up Kings Peak]https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2022/09/kings-kings-peak-painter-basin-and.html) and around to Henry’s Basin, but then there’s Big Meadows Trail. Er. What to say about a trail that looks like it has freshish blazes and no fresh cuts through the many trees on it? Well, it wasn’t in the right place outside the wilderness where I was quite sure I was on trail. I fixed it to my best guess before and after the wilderness sign.

Someone mentioned Strava heat as a source and I found the Strava-iD map. This became a source to help determine when I was and when I was not on trail. It didn’t really go past the wilderness sign either. I’d circled back to find it and it was there. I made sure the trail passes it and marked it. I’ve now found that the heat on that map might be old data and not updated? The map actually on Strava has a much different look. It gives a different idea of what was on and off trail, except the original data actually fits better with my memory of trail finding. So… the forest needs to just clean it up and make it easier to follow. Humph.