I was very lucky to grow up in Edmonton which has the North Saskatchewan river valley. Growing up near Mill Creek Ravine, I had a whole lot of nature to explore. I usually run Strava to record my rides but this time I went with a friend and it was supposed to be an easy … Continue reading Returning to where you learned to ride
Trail Construction Failure
In Nova Scotia, trail group Biosphere Northeast Trails Association (BNTA) has returned funds and cancelled a trailbuilding project in Cape Breton. A CBC article explained that the trailbuilding association had worked on the project but had to go through a very long process of consultation and planning. The provincial process, the article explains is 10 steps to ensure compliance … Continue reading Trail Construction Failure
Why I ride
Learning on a sparkly green banana seat bike, coasting down a gravel hill, you learn to not fall really quickly. My cousin wasn't happy that I had rode her bike and scratched it , but it imprinted the bike exploration habit. That gravel hill at my grandparents farm, had alot of conifer trees and old … Continue reading Why I ride
Web development
I've have tangled and lost with learning xml, html and python in the past when I was at school. The process of learning how to learn a programming language doesn't seem to be compatible with my brain. When I was studying GIS we had to learn python, our instructor while familiar with python wasn't a … Continue reading Web development
Google Earth Trail Alignment demo
The video was created for a class in 2011, many things have changed since then. The trail alignment was captured with a consumer grade GPS under heavy tree coverage. Now you would be able to capture this data at a higher precision with a external bluetooth GPS (Bad Elf) to show the alignment around features … Continue reading Google Earth Trail Alignment demo
First blog post
This is the excerpt for your very first post.