Monday, October 27, 2008

This Camera is a dream come true.....i think

Are you kidding me 14.7 mega pixels in a point and shoot for under $600.
and it has a dedicated hot shoe mount so you can use professional level flashes with it. and it has a bunch of other cool features like raw+jpg.






GPS

Its expensive but I'm pretty sure its worth it.
The Oregon 400t
http://http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/oregon/

Sunday, October 19, 2008

New Mexico Mapped out


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I am learning how to use the Google eath software better.
Here is the CDT as it goes through New Mexico. According to the files i downloaded at This amazing web site.
I have placed Pins at our re supply locations.

These will either be places we stop to buy new food or pick up a premailed package full of wholesome goodies.

You'll probably notice that we don't plan to start our hike at the Mexican Boarder this is for many reasons. One reason being, we don't want to contact border patrol to request permission to walk from the actual boarder, and it is kind of dangerous to walk around there because of the current political standings the new beefy border line.
The other main reason we are starting a few hundred miles north of the boarder is water, we don't have desert experience, we might get too thirsty, so starting further north we will be near more water and not so surrounded in desert.

yeah so please enjoy if you have Google earth and want to download the kmz file from me drop a comment and ill send it out.
-Weber

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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We hiked some of the AT this weekend!!
Starting near the New york New jersey Boarder off of 17a
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There is Jamie ready for a hike!

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And that is Me!
Notice the amount off wool we both are wearing.
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We head north like we always do. Why north? i don't know we always start going North, it just always seems right.


The next few shots are what i took during the first mile or so...
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WE GOT TO SEE OUR FIRST AT SHELTER!! Blue Blazes ahead.
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Glad to see the Blue Blazes brought on a nice Vista for us to point at. :)
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and at last...
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it seemed really creepy to us, i ran ahead to get the next shot this is Jamie's first look inside..
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We ate some GORP and read the log book. both of us finding it weird and creepy and also couldn't figure out why people wew cooking food right where they were sleeping, and why the at people would build a shelter with a fire pit less than 10 feet from the shelter...
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Jamie has had enough, its time to move on...

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Black diamond quantum 55 we think its the best
and those hiking poles, we cant tell if we like using them but we have found a new way of tying them to the bag.

More walking!!!!

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This is where the AT meets up with the Highlands Trail. The Highlands trail is a 150 mile long trail from the Delaware river to the Hudson valley.
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We tighten up our boots before we descend down to the first road crossing
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Warwick and I think the road is 93 seemed like a road worth crossing
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The trick to camping where your not supposed to is to fallow these rules, but that is a bad reason to fallow them, we try to leave the smallest foot print possible.
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Through a swamp and toards the next "mountain"
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Power lines always make me feel so small
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Horray a water fall
if you look to the right you will see Jamie waving

We climbed a hill and found this dried up lake

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And the View

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And Jamie Pointing at it...
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Up that hill down it and on to the Next but before that a road crossing and a swampy area

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after the descent and a road crossing what would there be? another hill to climb.

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and a summit nearing dusk made it time to break for camp

My tent:
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Sleeping gear:
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Jamie's Tarp:
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and sleeping gear
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DINNER
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beef Jerky Pea soup from a mix with a side of flaked potatoes raised our blood sugar while the two beers raised the moral



A night of rain and we both wake dry warm and well rested
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Notice how dry the sleeping area is



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Time for Breakfast
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After a quick look at the map we establish the days hike and estimate how long it will take to get to the car and off we go
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Down
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And back up again

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The day got nice and sunny and we dried out a bit
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Meeting up with the highland trail we head south
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Crossing the power lines again

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and when the highland trail met up with the "wooded road" as our map described it we made a right heading west towards the car, as it turned out this road had been turned into a gas pipeline
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After double checking the map we figure we have to get to the crest of the next hill to relink with the AT and get to the car.

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so down we go
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super steep and hard on the ankles.
they put fist sized rocks down and then a layer of hey so it loks all soft and smooth.
but its not and its really steep.


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until next time happy trails