I finally kayaked the Numbers section on the Arkansas River after 7 seasons of fearing the class IV run! Here I am celebrating after rapid number 1 went extremely smoothly. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day in the Arkansas River valley which was in stark contrast to the cool, rainy months that characterized Colorado […]
kayak, outdoors, storiesCheck back at this post each day to see the progress we’ve made as we raft and kayak our way down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River! We launch on Friday, 6/26, take out on Thursday, 7/2, and will then kayak for a few days near Jackson, WY before returning to Colorado. Update 6/3/09: […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, SPOTI attended Colorado Whitewater’s annual Training Camp this past weekend and had a great time helping out by sweeping on Saturday and Sunday. We had a really great group of folks and I managed to grab a few photos, so I thought I would post them for the whole crew to see. Hopefully, I will […]
outdoors, photos, storiesEdit 5/21/2009: The G.E. plugin is killing performance on my PC and since it wasn’t too impressive, I have removed it from this post. It is now incredibly easy to embed Google Earth into a blog or website, with the results that you see (maybe) below. However, I’m not sure how effective of a tool […]
digital, mapping, webThe weekend began with yet another April blizzard along the Front Range, but ended with warm, sunny weather in the Utah desert! I began Friday (4/17/09) by battling awful road conditions through Clear Creek Canyon and up I-70 and was treated to lack of heat in the van during the blizzard as my thermostat decided […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, photos, stories, videoGeotagging is basically the process of associating location with photographs and can be accomplished in many ways. I have developed a process using a commercial product called RoboGEO that not only geotags the photos, but also creates KMZ files that allow the photos and associated GPS data to be viewed in Google Earth. Here is […]
digital, gps, mapping, photos, webIf you have wondered why my blog is titled, “digital. stories. by Patrick Brown“, this stream of consciousness may provide some answers. Digital data may be used as a means of telling stories. Dumping a bunch of photos on the web tells a story about as well as dumping of bunch of random words on […]
digital, ramblings, webHere is a nice procedure I have developed for concatenating several days worth of GPS waypoints and tracks into a single GPX file. The end result is a compact, neat file that hierarchically contains each day’s track and waypoints with appropriate descriptions. This file can be easily shared and viewed intuitively in most mapping programs, […]
digital, gps, mappingAfter some trial and error, I have a nice method of recording GPS data on multi-day trips that is useful both during and after the trip. I typically use this procedure on backpacking, biking, and rafting trips when I will be sequentially moving from one location to another. In these case, I like to know […]
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