June 17, 2010
Team DeLorme will be riding the Trek Across Maine this weekend, a three day – 180 mile bike ride from the Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel, ME to the coastal town of Belfast.
I will be testing the limits of my GPS knowledge, my cycling skill, and my marriage… you see, I bought a tandem bicycle for our sixth run from Sunday River to the sea. My wife, who patiently waits for me to run all of my GPS tests, will now be trapped on the same bicycle with me! We’ve added to the excitement by picking up our new ride just yesterday so neither of us have actually ridden a tandem before… not even our dog Beezy, although she had some suggestions.
Fortunately we’ll have our Earthmate PN-60w & SPOT Communicator with us to make sure we don’t get lost.
Although I’m not sure I want to see the new profile information as we approach the big hill in the middle of day one in Weld!
I’ll have full trip statistics with me so that I can keep track of how far it is to the finish!
For those of you looking to follow along, you’ll be able to track our progress on this three day ride… complete with Type & Send messages giving updates on how things are going… Note that there are no messages on the site yet since we don’t start riding until tomorrow morning.
Team DeLorme – Trek Across Maine Shared Page (Sorry – the Trek is over so there is no content on the live site, I’m working on a SPOT Adventures Page with all of our messages.)
Keep an eye out here and on our Twitter account for reports from the field. Now I have to run and finish packing the car!
Ride safe,
Chip Noble
Team DeLorme
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June 2, 2010
From today’s press release:
The Teva Mountain Games will be the first opportunity for the public to see the two devices together in action. The DeLorme and SPOT exhibits will be side- by-side in the Gear Town area, located in downtown Vail.
Stop by and check it out if you’re at the games in Vail, CO on June 3-6. Otherwise, stay tuned here at the blog and/or our twitter account for updates from the Games.
UPDATE: Check out the SPOT shared page to see where the DeLorme and SPOT crew members are at the games. They are both tracking their movements and sending messages. Click the + next to Check In messages to see what was said.
Today’s Press Release
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May 24, 2010
I thought I’d put together a post on what we’re up to with the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w and SPOT Satellite Communicator beta test and give you a chance to see some of the new features…
The following screenshots and descriptions are part of my results for a Beta Challenge that requires the use of all the hardware and software we are releasing to Plan, Explore, and Share the results of an adventure. While not a major summit here in Maine, our Pleasant Mountain hike was my daughter’s first ascent so we were pretty excited to be able to send a message to her grandparents from the top!
Here are the steps we followed to put the trip together:
Planning
The Planning screenshot shows two waypoints—one for the parking lot and another for the summit of Pleasant Mountain. We actually used the DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer descriptions to select the mountain because it is the closest one to our house that had over 1,000 feet of elevation gain. I created a route from the parking lot to the summit and then created a track based on that route so that I could profile the hike on the PN-60w. I used the Geocaching features in Topo North America to create a Pocket Query in case there were any caches on the mountain. The last thing I did was download the aerial imagery for the mountain so that I could see detailed information about the terrain.
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