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TAR 18 Locations/Destinations **spoilers**
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on January 19, 2011, 11:55:36 PM ---Actually, I think I found it using the BLM map link.
There is a narrow body of water labeled "White Water." There is a road called White Water Cutoff west of the south end of that body of water, that becomes "Old Morango Road" that runs very close to I-10 briefly then wiggles away from I-10 headed generally northeastward. On the correct scale, there is a set of 16 red outlined squares with a "12" in the middle, and the SW 1/4 are the four small red blocks that make up the southwest quadrant of the set of 16 red outline blocks with the "12" in the middle. That's the area being referenced in that project list that the land description came from. Once you get it to the correct scale it falls into place very easily, and you can see that the BLM land description is very clear. If you get to highway 82 that's to the east, you are too far to the east, if you are at the service road to the west of the "White Water" body of water, you are too far to the west.
BTW, I'm talking about the BLM reference, not necessarily where the start line was.
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I think they have the start line in section 12 but in NW 1/4, not in SW1/4. Just a little off. :lol:
Plaidmoon:
Just for the record, when I made my cryptic message early this morning about finding information from last November that pointed TAR being in Palm Springs, I was referring to the Bureau of Land Management film permit that Slowhatch found. I should have passed it along. I'm not sure what I was thinking now. It was very late when I did that.
Anyway, I went as far as translating the range and township information into a latitude and longitude of 33.92176 N and 116.62823 W for the center of the southwest quadrant of section 12. I looked it up and saw that it was in the middle of a wind farm and left it at that. I'm glad to see that Slowhatch found it and Chateau has narrowed it down much better than I could have. Good work!
theschnauzers:
I believe the filming permit might have been for Phil's stand-up as the teams arrive at the start line. If so, that would explain the differences. The film permit almost seems as if it puts the canyon into the background for Phil, then the camera's point of reference would shift via editing to the wind farm.
georgiapeach:
You guys are wonderful!! :hearts:
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on January 20, 2011, 12:24:45 AM ---I believe the filming permit might have been for Phil's stand-up as the teams arrive at the start line. If so, that would explain the differences. The film permit almost seems as if it puts the canyon into the background for Phil, then the camera's point of reference would shift via editing to the wind farm.
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Also, when they look to the south, the view of Mount San Jacinto will be spectacular from that location. It has been used by California Plein Air painters for almost a century.
Arthur Merton Hazard
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