With the Consumer Electronics Show now in full swing, there will most likely be a ton of new information coming out about the highly-anticipated Garmin Colorado. But until that deluge of press releases hits, we can mop up our collective gadget-lover drool while gawking at the few stiffs lucky enough to actually get their hands on one.
GPS Tracklog has a few new images and a helpful one-page but you’re really going to want to head toward GPS Magazine.
They’ve got a 6 page comprehensive write up of their first impressions of the unit, which seems generally very favorable. They’ve got their qualms with the menu structure and the scroll wheel-like “Rock ‘n’ Roller,” but in all honesty it can’t be much worse than the thumbstick on my eTrex Vista CSx.
For me, the major selling point of the Colorado is the sexy new map view — with topographic shading and even an option for a bona-fide 3D view of your route. It’s going to be great to have a Garmin that can display something that actually looks like where you’re going hiking, instead of an image that looks like a leftover printout from your old dot matrix printer.
Start saving up, though — suggested retail price is about 600 bucks.
Yikes.
For more information, be sure to check out Garmin’s new official product page for the Colorado.
With the rainy weather and (relatively) cold temperatures hitting Southern California lately, maybe you’re thinking it’s time to stuff a swimsuit in your backpack and head out toward some hot springs. But maybe you don’t know where any good springs are.
Fear not! The internet is here to help!
The helpful folks at NOAA have a clickable map of all the thermal springs in the United States. The interface is a bit Windows 3.1-y, and it won’t necessarily tell you how to get to each hot spring — or whether they’re accessible at all — but it will spit out a ton of other information, like latitude and longitude, USGS quadrangle, and even average water temperature.
The Southwest is covered with the things, so get out there and enjoy ‘em during these cold months.
Via Free Geography Tools.
The National Weather Service has posted a flash flood warning for the burn areas of Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles Counties through Saturday afternoon, as well as high wind advisories and warnings for the same counties.
The much-needed rain is expected to remain fairly steady through Sunday, and potentially tapering off as late as Monday evening, bringing our parched landscape the most rain it’s seen since 2005.
If you still plan to brave the rain slash snow for some weekend outdoor activities, be prepared.
Me, I’ll be shuttering myself in my apartment and boarding up the windows to protect myself from the inevitable seven thousand car accidents that happen every time it drizzles in L.A.
… of course, is the one you get yourself.
And this year, I treated myself to a 24-pack of the best-damn CLIF bar flavor out there — Iced Gingerbread.
I’ve got a soft spot for this seasonal flavor — maybe because you can only get it for a few weeks out of the year, but probably just ’cause it tastes so damn good.
Amazon itself is already out of stock, but you can still pick up a few bars of your own through some of their sellers
if you act quickly.
Oh, and Happy New Year everyone!
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