Francis Tapon has finished the first documented yo-yo (through-hike in both directions, in one season) of the Continental Divide Trail, with Garret The Onion finishing soon after. Congrats to them both for an amazing and inspiring feat!
Maybe this mile-by-mile account of groceries and lodging on the PCT is only fascinating to those who have done some miles on the trail. I loved it.
…look like ocean waves made of clouds. NASA posted some time lapse videos taken recently in Iowa.
Erden of the Around-n-Over expedition has posted an outline of his communications gear, purchased and supported by Human Edge Tech. There’s a lot of interesting portable, solor-enabled gadgets there. I like Erden’s blog, but it needs an RSS feed and permalinks to each post.
A Map Room post about an upcoming documentary on Peter Arno got me curious enough to visit ODTMaps.com, a place that challenges the ways we represent our world. It was intriguing enough to get me to the documentary previews.
