Do any of you use Bing satellite photos for route planning?

Until now, I had used Google Earth to get a rough idea of the terrain of planned routes. But GE's resolution isn't all that great for most of canoe country, and it seems there's always cloud cover over the areas you want to look at.

Bing seems to have *much* better resolution than GE, and is now my preferred source for this sort of thing. (Am I the last to know about this?)

Anyhow, here's what the Ox Lake / Bearpelt Creek area looks like. You can zoom in (not sure how to fix the brightness adjustment) or move to somewhere else if you prefer.

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BTW, you want "AERIAL" not "BIRD'S EYE" to get the higher res. The traffic reports don't work in this area either.