Stewart Midwinter's blog
Mobile GPS tracklogs and photo geotagging with the Nokia N82
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 21:16.Mobile GPS tracklogs and photo geotagging with the Nokia N82 - I've got to say that Nokia's Sport Tracker application running on the GPS-enabled Nokia N82 phone is pretty slick. It doesn't get any easier than this!
Splashdown report
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 20:32.Yet another successful Lakeside Splashdown competition has wrapped
up. For the umpteenth year in a row we were able to run the contest
on the Saturday, and didn't have to fly on Sunday (good thing
considering how the Saturday night party went). Only once in 32
years has the contest had to be extended to the Monday.
This year once again we had sunny skies and an early start, with the
hang gliders being heli-lifted up to launch (except for the late
arrivals - right, Bruce and Zeke?). After a 7:00 pancake breakfast,
Impressions of Garmin Forerunner 205
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 08:05.Impressions of Garmin Forerunner 205 - One of my multipurpose GPSes gave up the ghost recently, and I picked up the Garmin Forerunner 205 as a possible replacement. Here are some comments based on my week with the device:
Easter fly-in at Panorama
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 04:28.It was a banner year for the Easter Fly-In at Panorama ski area near Invermere, BC where the 25-plus participants enjoyed two good flyable days out of three.
Willi XC Challenge Days 6&7
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Fri, 08/11/2006 - 13:01."And so it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper." That was written about something else, but it could apply to the Willi Week XC Challenge as well. The past two days have seen torrential rains in Golden. I bailed out yesterday and came down to Invermere, pausing to fly Eric Oddy's training hill at Brisco on my paraglider between storms.
Today, there was a good patch of sun in Invermere (along with
towering cus on all sides), so Jon Orders took off and tried to log
one more flight in the contest. He needed to fly 12 km out and 12 km
Willi XC Challenge Day 3
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Tue, 08/08/2006 - 23:36.Another day with high winds - this seems to be the norm at Golden this year. Two pilots on early-morning sledders reported being on speed-bar all the way to the LZ.
Blog me
Submitted by Stewart Midwinter on Sat, 01/07/2006 - 00:02.Blogs are becoming like e-mail addresses. Pretty soon you have more than you need. So if you want to read anything I wrote, you can find it on my home blog, http://midtoad.org/blog/
cheers
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