Trip Report – Southern New Mexico and Mexican Gray Wolves
My posting frequency has been down a bit lately, as I just returned from a “working vacation” – how’s that for an oxymoron? Nevertheless, my wife and I had fun exploring New Mexico and a bit of Colorado, but our outdoor adventures were mostly in Southern New Mexico. I like describing and posting tracks of [...]
Another geocaching Christmas, this time with travel bugs!
Last year I reported on a geocaching Christmas, now a firmly ensconced family tradition. For those of you not familiar with
geocaching, it’s a way to have fun with your GPS and get kids
out of the house and hiking. And if you just got your first GPS, geocaching is a great introduction to GPS navigation.
This year [...]
Mountain biking Lake Tahoe and Downieville by GPS
Last week I posted about preparing my GPS and maps for a mountain biking vacation around Lake Tahoe, and it’s high time for a trip report. My wife and I got in four good rides, and here are the highlights and GPX track files for each:
Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT) and the Flume
We were a little [...]
Downloading tracks to your GPS for navigation
I returned a couple of days ago from a week long mountain biking vacation at Lake Tahoe and Downieville, California. I had wanted to ride many of these trails for years and since I had not ridden them before, prior to going I downloaded tracks that others had posted online. Most of them came from [...]
SiRFstar III reception under dense canopy
UPDATE: Here’s my 2010 take on SiRFstar III, which is rarely available these days.
My wife and I went on our weekly mountain bike ride today, and of course we took our GPS receivers along for the ride! I was kind of excited about it; we were going to ride a trail in dense redwoods that [...]
Using your GPS on the Ski Slopes
Awhile back, I posted a couple of items about SnowRanger Ski Resort Maps. I had wanted to test out their software and report back on it, but alas, I’m not going to Tahoe or Coolorado this winter. I did however get in a brief trip this weekend to the Ski and Snowboard Park at Mt. [...]
A Geocaching Christmas
When my family gathers at Christmas, it’s become a tradition to take the kids out geocaching. The first
trip, a number of years back, was actually my own introduction to GPS, as documented on page one of my book. So today, we gathered the clan and headed out to Heron Cove, AKA GCJQ4A.
I really look forward [...]
GPS Trip Report: Southern California Deserts
I’ve posted several PhotoFusion pages from the recent Southern California desert trip my wife and I took. Check this link out for more on geocoded photos, including how to use the PhotoFusion pages. Here are the links along with the .gpx files for anyone interested:
Palm Canyon (PhotoFusion page)
Download palm_canyon.gpx
Thomas Mountain (PhotoFusion page)
Download thomas_mountain.gpx
Goat [...]
GPS Reception in Canyons
I just returned from vacation, during which time I tested a Garmin GPSMap 60CS and Magellan Meridian Platinum side-by-side to check for accuracy in a canyon. Canyons, both natural and urban are notorious for the phenomenon known as multipath — the reflection of signals off canyon walls. GPS receivers work by calculating the time it [...]
Trip Report: Using GPS biking Mt. Diablo
This post launches a new category at GPS Tracklog — Trip Reports. The point isn’t to provide a trail guide, but rather to exhibit some of the ways to utilize your GPS. This report focuses on a circumnavigation of Mt. Diablo, a 3849′ peak that dominates the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay region.
My [...]
