Musings
This page serves as a place for all of the random things that don’t fit in any other categories. Everything from programming experiments, to GPS maps, to Google Earth overlays, and even the current theme for this site. Have at it.
Note: Most of these items are licensed under a GNU Public License or a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. This basically means that you can feel free to use, abuse, and/or modify anything you find on this page, but if you’re going to use it for commerical gain, get a hold of me
first, and we’ll figure something out.
Singlespeed Gear Ratio Calculator
This is an online calculator that will give you a couple options for a ‘no tensioner needed’ singlespeed on a frame with horizontal dropouts. Just enter the distance from the axle to the BB center, and the number of teeth on your front ring.
Kachina Peaks Avalanche Zones, Google Earth Overlay
This is an overlay of the avalanche zones found at the Kachina Peaks Avalanche Center Website on google earth. Save the file and then open it up in google earth, and you can see the layout and labels for major avalanche zones on the San Francisco Peaks.
Movies
P-rim – One of the crux moves on porcupine rim trail near the end, as demonstrated by yours truly on a singlespeed.
Skiing with J-money A short little clip on the sweetness of life as Jeremy and I were sitting on the ridge just north of humphreys doing some epic skiing.
GPS Biking Tracks
Antelope Peak Challenge – I am doing the APC this year, and did some manipulating and simplifying of the GPS files to make them work with my GPS (which has a 500 point limit per track).
Topofusion on Linux!
This is a tutorial I put together for those of you out there who are running Linux but would like to run the sweet piece of GPS software TopoFusion on it. It’s about 95% functional and very usable (depending on what exactly you need to do). Take a look at the above link for a tutorial on how to get it running.
