I chose Mica Peak mainly because everyone else was doing Mt. Spokane and I wanted to do something different. I originally went to the USGS site to download a dramatic hill outside Sandpoint. It took forever to download on school computers but when I downloaded it in literally 10 minutes at home I could figure out how to transfer the data back to the Virtual Lab. It frustrates me that the Internet at the local coffee shop is literally 100's of times faster than Internet at a school I pay $8000 a year to attend.
I tried to load a copy of ArcGIS to my laptop, but I couldn't get it to verify. So eventually I had to get the assignment in and went with easy data from the Washington State repository. I downloaded the 10 meter DEM file for Mica Peak in the Spokane Valley. The top map is a 3-D relief. I created the other three maps by turning on and off the various data sets and then creating an individual legend for the maps.
