18 Jun
Wow.
The Best iPhone 3.0 Beta app award at the Apple Design Awards last week is for trekkers.
Rave review … at least if you hike in certain parts of the U.S.A.:
… I haven’t used the application on a hike yet, but the mapping content on the application is very rich, and you can see what [...]
16 Nov
From Section Hiker:
I love the Appalachian Trail, but on weekends and in the summer time, it can feel really crowded.
In fact, the ATC estimates that 4 million people hike on the AT each year, and a lot of their trail maintenance and stewardship efforts go toward mitigating their impact on the surrounding environment and other [...]
5 Nov
Hiking guru Peter Potterfield was much impressed with his first off-the-map hiking adventure in NFLD.
… the rangers here make you take along a locator beacon, what they call a “caribou collar,†before they’ll even give you a hiking permit. The idea is that if you get lost, they can find you with the transmitter much [...]
31 Aug
Guidebook author Sandra Friend has done it again. Added another cool online feature.
A new free resource for hikers: head on over to the Florida Trail website to download yourself a set of Grab-and-Go Hikes. … These are mini-guides to popular day hikes (many with opportunities for camping) along the Florida Trail, and include mileages, directions, [...]
5 Jul
Warren Long has a friend developing a social networking site for outdoors people. Routiki.com — a work in progress — is a place to share Running/Walking/Biking/Hiking routes on top of GoogleMaps.
Click PLAY or watch an explanation on YouTube.
Check it out for yourself: Routiki.com
I’m still waiting on the perfect solution for mapping [...]
20 Jun
Tom Mangan just posted a map of the hikes he’s written up for his Mercury News column.
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All new map of Two Heel Drive hikes
27 Mar
On The Adventure Blog, Kraig linked through to a terrific hiking site:
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Click through to the interactive map on Adventure Zone. You will be impressed with the amount and detail of information on hiking in Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa available.
My #1 destination in South Africa is the Drakensberg. But clearly there are many, many more [...]
24 Mar
The only person more excited than me about the new North Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, Canada, is BluePeak editor Rogier Gruys.
Rogier linked to an article in Wild Coast Magazine in which the authors claim the NCT is even better than the famed WCT, our #1 hike in the world.
High praise!
We’ll need to hike the [...]
19 Mar
I’ve been section hiking it for the past three years. Can I get there once again?
And I’ve got friends planning to honeymoon hike this coming summer.
If you are considering it yourself, check out this great new resource. It’s a virtual JMT hike via photo pages.
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Click through to the start page. And follow the links. [...]
14 Mar
If I was flying there today, I’d head for the Island of Gran Canaria.
The Canary Islands are an African archipelago which are part of Spain and consist of seven islands of volcanic origin in the Atlantic Ocean. They are located off the north-western coast of mainland Africa (Morocco and the Western Sahara).
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That’s the home [...]
