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While I don't feel very qualified to talk about most of everything else discussed in this thread, I know a thing or two about GPS. What you see above, especially the last image, are very typical of consumer-level GPS units (a lot of which use the same SIRFstar chip) - 1Hz update rate, tracks all...

Here's a bit of input from a newcomer 'millenial' (though I don't really identify as one - I am right on the edge and have not been to Facebook in a long time). I've been lurking and reading VFTT for several years, it kept popping up all the time in my research about the Whites, winter hiking...

I'm not going to comment on the negligence issue but I'll point out something about Whatsapp - whenever you send a message to someone, the app shows 2 checkmarks to the right of each message and they tell you 3 things: "A single grey tick means it's been sent successfully, a second grey tick...

I recently finished reading Not Without Peril and found it extremely captivating. So when The New Yorker's story about Henry Worsley's adventures in Antarctica came across my Instagram feed I of course jumped on it. Highly recommended, a very powerful piece...

There, I too learned something new! Now to add those to my maps as 'want to go' places :)

Strava started out as a cycling app and I've been using it for that purpose for several years. Back then they had very limited support for hiking/running but I uploaded my hikes anyway. Feels like just recently (within the last couple of years) they exploded into other areas like swimming and...

Good advice. I have an anecdotal story to support this: I wanted to do a local winter hike 2 days after a storm that put 6in of fresh snow on the groundand I was picking between Wachusett and Watatic; decided on Wachusett. I was worried about snowpack but it was totally for nothing. Parked in a...