Joost's Bay Area Basecamp http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/ A blog about skiing, ski mountaineering, and any activity to prepare for the winter season en Copyright 2007 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:41:49 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss EveryTrail.COM! If you haven't already, make sure to check out EveryTrail.com, the GPS Travel Community!

We launched 4 months ago and an active community of global travelers is emerging. Users are sharing all kinds of trips, from sailing in Greece, to driving through Namibia in a 4x4, to scooter trips in Hawaii and hundreds more trips!

One cool way to share your latest trip is to embed a FULLY INTERACTIVE trip map into your own blog. For example, take a look at this flight above San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2007/02/update.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2007/02/update.php Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:41:49 -0800 The Stanford dish loop in Google Earth / Maps I played a bit more with Google Earth and Google Maps, my digital camera and my GPS. The result is a nice overview of my backyard running loop, called "the dish".Download the file and open it in Google Earth (You will need to have Google Earth installed), or view it as a Google Map.

Download "the dish" in Google Earth

View "the dish" in Google Maps

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]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/02/the_dish_loop_stanford_in_goog_1.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/02/the_dish_loop_stanford_in_goog_1.php Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:53:25 -0800 Back country trip Verbier - Fionnay (with Google Earth track and pictures!) The last day of our stay in the Alps we did the classic and spectacular daytour from Verbier to Fionnay. I recorded the track with my GPS and created a Google KML file including location based pictures. First download Google Earth if you don't have it yet, and then download the kml file. Enjoy!

download the fionnay trip in Google Earth

View the Fionnay trip in Google Maps

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]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/01/back_country_trip_verbier_fion.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/01/back_country_trip_verbier_fion.php Ski mountaineering Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:51:58 -0800 The Alps The last 2 weeks the ski8000 team was reunited in Meribel and Verbier.

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Joost, Greg and Herman are back in the mountains

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/01/the_alps.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2006/01/the_alps.php Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:36:56 -0800 Ski season has started After a snowless November, the mountains around Lake Tahoe are now covered with a thin layer of snow.

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/12/ski_season_has_started.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/12/ski_season_has_started.php Skiing Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:48:34 -0800 Snow? Last year the ski season in Squaw opened on Oct 30, the earliest openening of the ski season ever. This year, it seems like we are having one of the latest season starts ever...

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/snow.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/snow.php weather&conditions Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:42:09 -0800 Just a few more days It's just 10 more days before we will (hopefully) be hitting the slopes in Lake Tahoe. To get in the mood, here is the Squaw Valley live webcam. Enjoy :)

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/just_a_few_more_days.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/just_a_few_more_days.php Skiing Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:13:52 -0800 Warren Miller movie Last weekend we went to see Warren Miller's 56th (!) annual ski movie called Higher Ground. Wow, what an inspiration for the upcoming ski season! See: http://www.warrenmiller.com. The movie has some fantastic big mountain skiing in Alaska, Switzerland and Colorado.

]]> http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/warren_miller_movie.php http://everytrail.net/blog/joost/2005/11/warren_miller_movie.php random thoughts Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:30:16 -0800 Snowing in Lake Tahoe Andy from The Unofficial Alpine Meadows Ski Report comes with some good news today:

I have returned to Lake Tahoe to witness the sky darken, temperatures drop, winds howl, and rain or snow fall to the ground. The weather people say this will continue for a day or two with snow levels dropping as time moves along. No one is predicting enough snow to begin the ski season, but the ground is cooling and the possibility seems to be in the air. Perhaps we will luck out and have a few slopes available for Thanksgiving.

Not as good as last year when we made our first tracks on October 30, but I don't complain :)


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