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Switchback Travel

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

David Wilkinson and his wife Samantha have a snazzy new international adventure travel site. They already have some great content featuring New Zealand, Norway, and Nepal. But there’s much more to come.

Switchback Travel is an informational site—not a booking site—and provides comprehensive coverage of the world’s most extraordinary outdoor destinations. Given the desire to avoid the narrow and beaten path of existing travel information, the site is comprised not of sterile, exhaustive lists but instead offers an abundant collection of essays, photographs, maps, user input, and other helpful tools. …

I’m subscribed to Switchback Travel.


on Google Privacy

Friday, January 27th, 2012

You may have been contacted by Google:

We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. …

These changes will take effect on March 1, 2012.

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Some are freaking out.

That’s dopey. Not much is changing. Here’s a much more measured assessment:

Read Write Web – Tech World Overreacts to Google’s New Privacy Policy – How Does It Affect You?

… You know what you can do? Stop sharing things you don’t want tracked. …

Before and after March 1st best advice is not to do anything online you’ll regret in future. Somebody, somewhere could be tracking it. And it probably won’t be Google. They’re one of the least evil players.

If you want to dig into this deeper, the best authority is Jeff Jarvis. He’s the author of:

• What Would Google Do?
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Pacific Crest Trail Journal

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Kolby Kirk is some kind of Da Vinci of the trail. Check this sample page from his 2011 PCT journal.

I saw JEFF THROPE link to that on Adventure Journal:

… After being laid off from his job in April 2011, Kolby Kirk (The Hike Guy) decided he would attempt to complete as much as he could of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.

Starting at the Mexican border near Campo, California, he walked for 159 days and nearly 1,700 miles. In that time, Kolby wrote 850 pages in his journals, a few of which he has started to scan …

Kolby is now working on a book …

Declination: Pacific Crest Trail Journals

More samples and links to Kolby via that post.

Adventure Journal was ranked #1 Adventure Blog by Ouside, by the way.


Tongariro Northern Circuit

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

John Black is editor of Tramping New Zealand.

Check out his take on our favourite hike in New Zealand – Tongariro Northern Circuit Tramp Report:

• Three to five day tramp in the volcanic range of the Central Plateau
• Stunning and unique volcanic scenery
• Incorporates the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
• Large, clean huts with cooking facilities

See more on Tramping New Zealand.


Vote for Most Extreme Hiking Tale

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Over on Two-Heel Drive. Here are the finalists:

J.K.: Wild night by a waterfall
Gambolin’ Man vs. hungry bear
Clarke Green: Rough night in the ‘Daks
Tgabrukiewicz: Taking a beating in the Trinity Alps
Zachary Robbins: Chillin’ in Linville Gorge

Winner gets a gift box full of Beef Jerky

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