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UK Outdoor Bloggers 2007-03-20 13:19:41 A post at outdoorsmagic notes that outdoor blogging is catching on in the UK, and provides some URLs to get you started:
http://www.alansloman.blogspot.com/
http://walkaboutuk.blogspot.com/
http://londonbackpackers.blogspot.com/
http://aktoman.blogspot.com/
http://bgontheweb.spaces.live.com/
http://www.skunkbag.co.uk/blog/index.php
http://mikepitt23.spaces.live.com/
http://maverickapollo.blogspot.com/index.html
http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/diary/
http://www.alpinechallenge.info/
http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/
Unextinct: Oil beetle reappears in England after 40 years 2007-03-20 13:06:39 They’ve apparently survived on less intensively farmed coastal lands in Devon. The article indicates that they depend on declining bee populations, but not how. Read more:England
Solar GPS 2007-03-19 15:30:57 A GPS
receiver with a built-in solar panel is reviewed at Vector One and sold at KEOMO.
(Via Free GeoTools Read more:Solar
Freegan.info 2007-03-21 18:53:27 I just learned what a freegan is. For me the interesting part is the proposition that we’re ignorant of most of the detrimental consequences of our actions. I think that’s true.
Google Maps API steps toward open source 2007-03-23 20:56:57 It’s easy to wish for things in the Google
Maps API once you get started using it. Chances are that others want the same things. Google has taken the first step towards letting us work on their API by opening parts of it on Google Code. Read more:steps
, Google Maps
Sawyer water filter 2007-03-30 22:51:56 Crow is considering a new backcountry water
filter. I’ve never seen or tried one, but I loved the small gravity filter I used on the PCT, which may have been similar. Read more:Sawyer
U.N. Climate Report Will Predict Extinctions 2007-03-30 17:46:19 Here we seem to have a some predictions of what the predictions will be. A third of all species will have to move to new ecosystems or they’ll become extinct. The only extinctions cited so far are 17 species of frog. So first we’ll what the actual report predicts, and then how those predictions play out… Read more:Climate
Daytime Homeless Shelter: The Library 2007-04-02 20:41:27 This looks like a good article about one of the few places a homeless person might be tolerated during the day - a public library. Libraries have been crucial to my own comfort and communication during homeless stints. Read more:Daytime
, Shelter
, Library
The Marginal World 2007-04-04 00:08:59 Another very good article that describes the homeless and the world they inhabit compellingly.
Via On Homelessness in America Read more:Marginal
, World
California Condors Reenter Mexico 2007-04-03 17:24:14 Caretakers of the 280 or so existing California
Condors are excited that a pair has laid an egg in Mexico
for the first time since the 1930’s.
Free downloadable Canadian topos 2007-04-05 03:53:23 This has been brewing for a while, and now you can officially download oodles of map data at GeoGratis. I found topos in the CanMatrix data set.
Via The Map Room Read more:Canadian
My take on My Maps 2007-04-05 23:20:08 Google has again managed to generate impressive buzz with it’s new “My Maps” feature at Google Maps. I happy to see it, because I hope it will save me from having to write a map editor for my software. Instead I just import a KML file, which can be created or edited with Google’s tools.
A million species cataloged 2007-04-10 16:38:26 Biologists have topped the 1 million
mark in their effort to catalog the species
on Earth. It appears that about half of those are in the online database.
PCT Planner Online 2007-04-12 18:55:28 I bet that nearly everyone attempting a through hike of a national scenic trail produces at least one horribly complex spreadsheet in the planning process. Only a matter of time, it seems, before somebody puts their planning process into some free online software. This one’s just for the PCT.
Steady on the CDT 2007-04-13 17:36:44 TrailJournals.com has been pretty quiet on the Continental Divide Trail so far this year, even though snow levels are way below average. At last there’s a a post from Steady, lured into just one more hike as described by his transcriber:
Once again I watch Steady prepare to walk away down the trail. During and after the PCT he told everyone that this was the only long distance hike that he would do. But you thru-hikers know that once you hike a long trail you are never the same again. That you have to BE there again. That the taste of the sunrises and sunsets, the high mountain vistas, the stream crossings, the sheer beauty of it all and the personal challenges conquered…all these things lure you on. And the friendships forged are extraordinary.
Team Arp 2007-04-16 19:51:39 Here’s one of those internet gems you dig up once in a while, a detailed journal site by an adventurous outdoorsy couple done entirely, it appears, in static HTML. I look forward to browsing around some more.
TrimbleOutdoors.com 2007-04-16 17:29:28 The new “outdoor trips” layer in Google Earth has led me to trimbleoutdoors.com. This company is selling navigation tools for cellphones, and compiling an outdoor trips database. Not huge yet, but seems to be good quality.
Hiker’s Medical Guide 2007-04-19 19:22:34 I started reading this short writeup from a doctor and hiker, and kept reading to the end.
(Via As The Crow Flies) Read more:Hiker
, Guide
Steady is NoBo on the CDT 2007-04-18 22:57:31 It sounds like the official southern terminus hasn’t changed much:
Within the first hour I had drawn blood on both my hand and foot from thorns! One thorn actually went straight through the sole of my new shoes and poked my foot!
It takes one day to get excited about a cow trough:
I couldn’t find the first well, but had three liters so wasn’t too concerned, The next four windmills were all turned broken or dry, so I made my three liters last until evening when I found great water –right from the well pump spigot instead of out of the cattle trough.
I too had problems with map accuracy in the early days:
It is handy having three sets of maps, plus the GPS. Many are obsolete –for example, two didn’t even have highway 113 on them!
Ann got a wound from a yucca plant on this section that bothered her for years. Steady got away with:
Lots of cuts and scratches on the legs, but only about twenty over an inch long, and only two that are of concern. One is a
Climate change blamed for frog and lizard extinctions 2007-04-18 22:20:12 Previous studies have cited a fungus as the reason for population declines, but this study found declines of populations free of the fungus. Global warming seems to be the next fall guy in line, though the synopsis of the evidence doesn’t sound at all conclusive.
One statistic I hadn’t seen yet: 100 frog and reptile species have gone extinct in Central & South America since 1980. Read more:Climate
, blamed
, extinctions
, Climate change
Applications for Google’s AJAX Feed API? 2007-04-18 21:12:01 Among all Google
’s APIs, I will be most interested in how the most recent AJAX
Feed API gets used. May not sound like much, but could it make it so easy to rip off content from blogs that bloggers will have a disincentive to create good content? Or will it just give birth lots of neat, properly credited aggregations, like a master map of the GeoRSS feeds from all of our outdoor blogs? Will traffic be properly channeled or plain stolen? I’m both trepidatious and tempted to dive in. Read more:Applications
Say Goodbye to the Amur Leopard? 2007-04-20 23:39:38 The most recent census of the Siberian leopard puts its numbers too low for survival of the species, according to results presented April 18 at Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources. Habitat fragmentation and hunting are given the primary blame. Read more:Goodbye
, Leopard
, Say Goodbye
New USGS Topo Downloads 2007-04-25 20:19:16 You can now download topos in GeoPDF format from store.usgs.gov (seems broken now, but hopefully is for real). Get helpful hints and how-to’s at Free GeoTools. Read more:Downloads
On the EDGE 2007-04-25 19:19:29 This is a new website dedicated to species that are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered.
EDGE species are truly one of a kind. If they disappear
there will be nothing similar left on the planet. Two-thirds are receiving little or no conservation attention. Help save these remarkable species.
White Crow nears Wyoming 2007-05-01 19:39:55 From Vernal, Utah, White
Crow can be relied on to express the mood of a place in a few words:
Wyoming
. It is a crazy loop of string in my mind that is trying to connect all of the miles that have brought me over our America and through so many lives that I have no thought of forgetting. […] If there have been lonely miles before now, this is the same flavor of land. A mouse found its way into my pack last night. I talked to it.
Hobo Gathering in Tennesse 2007-05-01 15:47:12 I wonder if every state hosts hobo gathering at some point? Probably, officially or not. I like the article, which opens with:
Hobos are not homeless bums that ride trains to take vacations. They are men, and in some cases women, who are trying to find work to make ends meet for their families.
Change [seasonal] work to IT work, and you have a cyberhobo. Read more:Gathering
Island Kerstin 2007-04-30 16:35:45 I think Island
Kerstin is my favorite outdoor photographer on Flickr. Every time I see one of her shots, I end up lost in her photostream for a while.
Ethiopian Obstacles 2007-05-04 19:39:54 Jason of x360 is waiting for a Sudanese visa, but couldn’t help getting on the bike in Ethiopia while he waits. It sounds rough, with scads of rock-throwing kids and overburdened farmland. Read more:Ethiopian
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