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120 Years of NatGeo for $200

December 31, 2009

National Geographic is one of my favorite magazines – I’ve been a devout reader since middle school and have more than a few shelves devoted to the yellow border in my apartment today. But, if you want to go the modern, digital route, you can now buy every single issue of the magazine on [...]

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Review: AccuTerra for iPhone

December 15, 2009

Earlier this year, I went up to Big Bear for some snowshoeing. I went on the Pine Knot Trail, and while it was fun, I definitely got lost more than I like to when I’m in the middle of the woods – both due to the snow covering most of the trail junctions and [...]

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Google Trail View?

October 22, 2009

Google, our future lovable life overlords, are extending their virtual reality-ish maps service Street View off of the road and onto the trail … and into theme parks, too.
The street view section of Google Maps currently allows users to get an actual view of their chosen location on almost every street in the United States, [...]

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National Parks Owner’s Guide

July 8, 2009

The National Parks Foundation, the nonprofit parks advocates chartered by Congress, has released the 2009 version of its National Parks Owner’s Guide.
The free 75 page PDF is an exhaustive resource on our National Park System, and is chock full of information – including a directory of camping areas, fees, and ranger programs for each park; [...]

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The Most Remote Place On Earth

April 21, 2009

We hikers and backpackers give ourselves a lot of credit for hiking hours into the wilderness, miles away from cars and electricity and the trappings of modern civilization. But the cold, hard fact is, really, we’re not that far away from the rest of the world. And apparently, neither are most of the [...]

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Backpacker Hikes On Your Cell Phone

March 18, 2009

Are you one of those last-minute hikers? The ones who wake up at 7AM on Saturday and just decide that now’s the time to get in your car, drive toward a mountain, and find a trail? If you are, this new service from Backpacker might be for you.
The outdoor magazine and GPS-crazy web [...]

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iPhone Maps Update

March 18, 2009

Well, we didn’t get terrain view … at least not yet. But the upcoming iPhone software update did provide some potentially exciting news for those who like to take their Jesus Phones onto the trail with them … although we’ll have to rely on other developers to do the heavy lifting.
Up until now, applications [...]

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Will the iPhone Update Improve Outdoorsy Uses?

March 16, 2009

Mac Addicts and gadget lovers of all stripes will be glued to their liveblogs tomorrow, as Apple stages an event to unveil the latest operating system version of the iPhone.
The blogosphere probably won’t be able to sleep tonight, dreaming of should-already-have-’ems like cut and paste and MMS — or, in some cases, long-shot dreams like [...]

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Google Earth 5 Released

February 2, 2009

So the big news — Google Earth 5 is out and ready to rock.
As was expected, oceanic data is the biggest update to this release. You can now seamlessly fly beneath the ocean waves to see detailed, 3-D maps of the ocean floor. What was not quite as expected are the new historical [...]

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Big News for Google Earth

January 29, 2009

Apparently, something big is brewing with Google Earth.
A few news organizations and blogs got invites to a Google Earth event in San Francisco on February 2nd, with speakers including CEO Eric Schmidt, Director of Google Geo John Hanke, and former Vice President Al Gore – who is also a senior advisor to the big G.
Because [...]

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