Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
This site is new news to me, and great for some layout and design situations: https://nhd.usgs.gov/ Although it’s not practical or possible to always bypass the lower 1/8-1/4 of any mountain to lower the chances of hitting seeps as a result of “toe-of-slope-effect,” the site (with the help of GIS) could be used to lower […]
National Hydrography Dataset Read More »
There’s a new bikes on roof hang tag design available.
New Bikes on Roof Hang Tag Read More »
The actual trip included about 122 trails or trail segments on about 23 different trail “systems” in 18 days of riding. It took 22 days in all. The extra 4 days were rain and travel days. All said and done it was about 352 miles of trail, but some of that mileage was dirt and
120 Trails in 18 Days- A Southeastern MTB Epic Read More »
Not exactly stairs on trails, but food for thought anyway. The Stair Event, is the only film on stair use and safety. It is based on the 1978 field study of spectators’ use of stairs at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. The Stair Event from Copycat Video Productions on Vimeo.
“In a single footstep there are over 300 miles of fungal cells stacked end-on-end moving stuff around…a super highway” moving stuff between trees. The trees communicate and share resources through that network, and even across species. They aren’t speciesist, they are mutualists, interdependent cooperators. If humans could only learn from trees how to stand erect
If a Tree Falls…Other Trees Hear It Read More »
This was too cool (in my opinion) to not share. It might be geared for “grades 6-12,” but this digital journey and lesson is pretty neat regardless of your age and whether you have been to these sites or not. In any case, it includes a virtual tour of columnar jointing in California, and images
A Geologic Expedition of Columnar Jointing and More Read More »