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The Outdoor Map 2006-12-28 18:12:43 It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been fiddling my own outdoor website called The Outdoor Map for almost a year now. My vision for it has changed, but I still use it all the time myself for finding places, keeping notes and links for them, and general map investigation. I had hoped that the site would support itself through advertising, but I never promoted it, and now the hosting bill is coming around. So, even though I still have many unrealized plans for it, I invite you play with the site a bit and see if you find it as useful as I do. Any comments you may have would be welcome.
Trialchaser.com 2006-12-28 17:52:52 Another online trail site joins the pack: trailchaser.com. It has a nice looking interface. Tracks, photos, waypoints, and elevation profiles are done well, but some key features like topo maps and printing are missing. One thing it does have that others don’t is the ability to draw a trail if you don’t have a GPX file.
Teenager sails the atlantic solo 2007-01-03 22:48:21 Congrats to 14-year-old Michael Perham, who has successfully sailed across the Atlantic by himself. Wow!
(Via Alastair Humphreys)
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, atlantic
Tree climbing goats 2007-01-05 18:13:57 Mountain climbers know that goats
can vie with humans when it comes to climbing
rocks, but I never knew that goats can climb trees too.
(Via J-Walk Blog)
North African Ibis found in Syria 2007-01-05 22:48:06 These birds are headed for extinction with fewer than 300 counted in the world, but researchers recently found 7 of them in Syria
, where they haven’t been seen in 70 years. National Geographic has an excellent video summary.
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, African
Whooping crane rebound assisted by global warming? 2007-01-06 15:30:09 The world’s only naturally migrating flock of whooping crane
s has grown from 15 to 237. Part of the reason is cited is a mild Canadian winter. The article doesn’t mention global warming.
Talk strangers into coming with you? 2007-01-08 19:06:21 Dominic Gill calls his adventure take a seat. He’s riding a tandem bike from Alaska to Argentina, trying all the way to convince people to take the extra seat on the bike and help him along…
(Via Alastair Humphreys)
Sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar 2007-01-10 21:48:33 This bat with adhesive feet is considered a new species, related to the only other known sticky-footed bat that lives in another part of Madagascar
.
Travellerspoint 2007-01-11 14:59:03 A site that aggregates information from individual traveler’s blogs, among other traveler features. There’s a new mapping feature as well - not sure if this creates a map automatically from your blog’s geoRSS feed, but that would be cool. I think blog aggregration is a technique that’s going to start popping up everywhere.
Back from the grave: Thai terrapin turtle 2007-01-11 19:58:44 A species of turtle
not seen in Thailand for two decades was caught and sold for soup, luckily to a conservation-minded citizen who turned it over to a district fisheries office to be raised in captivity.
Newly evolved species discovered in the Arctic sea 2007-01-12 23:09:47 They are microscopic algae that may someday be prized for their glowing pigments.
“In fact, the divergence of this group from known organisms is as great as the difference between land plants and animals,” Connie Lovejoy, a biologist at Universit Laval in Canada and another member of the research team, said in a statement. Read more:evolved
, species
, Arctic
TopoShare.org 2007-01-14 05:33:58 This is another “share your trip” site. The interface seems to offer a lot, but after playing with it a bit I’m not really sure what it delivers. Not intuitive. It does have one distinction, though - it’s a completely open-source project, hosted on SourceForge. It will be interesting to see which tactics win out in the end.
Trapped by high water for 5 weeks 2007-01-15 14:30:34 This is a rescue story I can relate to - a woman crosses the Gila River in New Mexico, it rains, and she is unable to get back across, turning a two-week trip into a 5-week wait-a-thon. The Gila runs in a fairly tight canyon in many places - I can imagine it’s possible to get pinned in. Still, I’d like to know more about why she didn’t search for an alternate route out.
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A real bike tour 2007-01-22 13:54:56 The first person to ride around the world on a bike may not have been along the lines of Alastair Humphreys’ ride this past decade. The great Wikipedia tells us Thomas Stevens did it on a penny farthing in 1884. Gears are for sissies.
(Via GoBlog)
Ball lightning finally produced in the lab 2007-01-24 14:15:03 I’d always hoped to see the mysterious phenomenon of ball lightning
outdoors. Now it’s possibly less mysterious, a very similiar phenomenon having been created by Brazilian scientists.
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Water trails online 2007-01-25 14:02:10 The American Canoe Associations hosts an online
database of water trails
. No maps or anything, but the first resource I’ve seen for paddlers.
(Via The Adventure Blog)
65-year-old woman beats a mountain lion off of her husband with a branch and a pen 2007-01-27 00:37:54 Hopefully someone will write a better headline for this story. And someone will work it into a movie scene for sure. There have been more mountain lion attacks near California’s urban areas in recent years, leading me to theorize about the animal kingdom battling our encroaching civilization, but this happened way up north in Prarie Creek State Park, a place where I’ve hiked and camped alone…
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Mysteries at Wired 2007-01-28 17:06:28 So much of science and nature media is selling newly acquired knowledge, it’s nice to see Wired
publish an article about what we don’t know. My personal questions have more to do with the mysteries of human consciousness, but questions like “Is time an illusion?” confound me frequently.
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Go2Web2.0 2007-02-05 20:45:31 An index of schnazzy new web sites, including many mapping sites.
The Brain's Clock 2007-02-05 20:28:55 I’ve been pondering lately whether I experience time directly, or whether my concepts of time are completely metaphorical. Studies of the brain’s time measuring mechanisms could be applicable to this question.
Warren Meck, a Duke University neuroscientist agrees: “This paper has important implications for our every day perception of the temporal relationships among all of the sights and sounds that we process.” Read more:Brain
, Clock
Extinction Blog 2007-02-06 13:58:54 Many of the links I cover in this blog are driven by an interest in when the thousands of species extinctions predicted by scientists will reach the news. Until now I haven’t found any other blogs on subject. Here is Exctinction Blog, news from the brink.
Frilled Shark 2007-02-06 02:48:31 A rare chance to see this rare deep-water shark, found dying in shallow waters.
(Via River of Fireflies)
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, Frilled Shark
What do you do when your water filter fails at sea? 2007-02-06 02:30:39 Jason of Expedition 360 has begun pedaling from India to Africa across the Indian Ocean with Sher, his partner for this leg. Five days out, their electric water
filter fails. They’re now relying on a hand-crank filters that produces drinking water at a rate of a little over a gallon per hour.
17 of 18 Whooping Cranes killed in Florida 2007-02-06 01:22:36 A flock of endangered cranes was decimated in Florida
storms last week. They were being trained by conservationists to Migrate between Florida and Wisconsin.
Eat local? 2007-02-07 16:01:52 I’ve been inspired by recent reading to eat more locally produced food. Apparently the UK is really getting into it. Here’s a sample of what African farmers have to say about that:
“With the deepest respect, the farmers in the villages where I come from don’t have televisions, they don’t have refrigerators, they don’t have even one car, let alone two, they don’t have motorbikes, they’ve never even been to our country’s capital let alone flown all over the world on holiday — so don’t ask those farmers to pick up the cost of environmental problems you in the industrialised West have caused.”
MapMyAdventure.com 2007-02-07 14:07:01 This is a travel map mashup for Australia that lets you add your own markers and notes.
alpinaut.com 2007-02-08 13:56:27 A mashup of outdoor routes for “rock and ice climbing, caving, canyoning, hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking”. Most of the points are in Europe currently. I like the idea of quick map access to route diagrams, but none of the “route diagram” links I tried actually contained any diagrams. Maybe it will get better.
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