Archive for November 2008

UMapper updated

Posted by on November 6th 2008 in Great Escapes, Maps, Plugins

UMapper's now got quite a few more features, the best one is the (beta) ability to import data in GPX, KML and geoRSS formats. Preliminary mucking-about has resulted in me importing a whole load of my Lake District walking routes from the Memory-Map installation on my lappy. Be warned - it takes a while to load. Later on, I'll get around to adding some notes/markers/lines etc., but for now, WYSIWYG.

 

Centurion

Posted by on November 5th 2008 in Congratulations!, Just for fun
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Congratulations go to Scott, our most regular provider of (often-irregular) comments.

Not content with consistently topping the leaderboard, last night he upped his tally to the 100 mark, thus earning himself this special mention.

I've not got a picture of him, so I dredged the interweb and came up with this alternative that I thought would be suitable. Just look at this bloke, all dressed up in his outdoors gear, standing there in such splendid isolation...

Image by Luc Viatour, reproduced under the terms and conditions stated here.

Red & yellow & pink & green, purple & orange & blue…

Posted by on November 3rd 2008 in Blast from the Past, Just for fun, Lakes Escapes, Pics
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Sorting through a pile of miscellaneous papers, we found a couple of prints that brought back happy memories. I whizzed them through the scanner to preserve copies of the images for posterity. They are from way back when the camera used film (Olympus OM10), outdoors gear was somewhat more colourful and the NT campsite at Wasdale was comparatively tree-less. I'll wager you can tell which is our tent...

 

 

 

Some of you older dyed-in-the-wool gear-heads might even be able to guess the identity of the colourful kit that's on display. To give you a clue, we're talking early 90s here. There'll be no prizes, mind - I'm not as generous as Weird Darren :mrgreen:

You want more clues? OK... Wild Country, Berghaus, Karrimor, Lowe Alpine, Taunton Leisure, Tilley, Heinz...