I went snowboarding with my brother in Vermont again this year, and like last year, I recorded my track using the Google My Tracks app for Android. Read more

An interesting drive and walk on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake.

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I’ve been looking for some decent hiking since I moved to eastern Maryland, and after some extensive internet searching, I stumbled on Sugarloaf Mountain. Their website has a nice trailmap, which was attractive for someone who would be exploring the area for the first time on their own. Upon arrival, I followed the one-way entrance up the mountain to the northernmost parking lot. At 11 AM, it was already fairly busy, so I would definitely recommend starting earlier if possible. I’ve included my GPS track and a few photos I took with my phone at the White Rocks lookout point.

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I’m posting GPS data from a snowboarding trip to Mount Snow in Vermont captured with the Google My Tracks app for Android. The XML Google Maps plugin for WordPress is pretty useful here. The only disappointing thing is that there isn’t a parameter to set the granularity when producing the altitude and speed graphs when using the plugin, as far as I know. The My Tracks app claims a top speed of 35 MPH (!), which isn’t illustrated in the speed graph. It looks like the plugin does a simple downsampling of the data, so it misses some detail. Still pretty cool though! Make sure to check out the map using the Google Earth plugin for a 3D view of the mountain.

This is all of the snowboarding we did before lunch. In other news, the battery life of the HTC Incredible sucks, so there’s no data after lunch.

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