Overlooked

This is an easy walk. We did it in around 3.5 hours. It can be done in 3 hours if you avoid taking the longer GR51 route. Be careful at trail marker number B83. The GR is marked with white and red. The direct route is marked with the normal yellow.

Map with GPS track of walk.

Dynamic map with GPS track.

GPS waypoints and GPS track.

Randoxygene walk information (website) (local pdf)

TiddlyWiki turns your web browser into tool for taking notes. All your notes are stored in a local XHTML file on your computer–it’s very portable. It is very easy to use, for geeks, as it is a Wiki.

I currently use a flat text file for my daily notes which gets messy when you note long URLs or try to make the presentation nice. I will give TiddlyWiki a try for my daily notes.

Not much…

GPS Utility

Made by Alan Murphy. Good for calibrating scan maps and placing GPS data on them, even if the UI is only good enough, but not good. I would like more report, but this shareware program, I did pay the registration fee. This software is recommended for GPS geeks, but surely the open source guys can come up with something better.

My GPS

Freeware software which is good for calibrating scan maps and placing GPS data on them. The main misfeature is before loading you GPS data, you must, no option, load a image of a map of your location. This is really broken when you only want to look at your GPS data. Other than this, My GPS works well. But it was a show stopper for me.

GPS Visualizer

Run don’t walk to use this web base utility. It allows you to put GPS data on satellite images and make x-y charts of distance and elevation from this same data. Way cool. Be sure to save always, your data in the open GPS Exchange Format.

GPS Babel

You need this utility in your back pocket. Open source, it converts from one GPS format to another format (and we know GPS folk love their own formats!). To be sure it supports the open GPS Exchange Format which you should be using to save ALL your GPS data.

Gourdon is a picturesque village in the south of France, up a freeking great mountain. It is only 15km from my house and I have been there many times–by car. I had seen many a biker heading up the road to Gourdon, but always thought they were nuts.. I have been biking around the area on a old road bike which was geared too high for these mountains. Recently, Julia got a new bike for my birthday which had all the low gears for the mountains. This weekend, Steven and I made it to Gourdon!

The trip was 34.03 km and 654m of up. We had one hour and 47 minutes of moving time and fifthteen stopped–almost all of it at the top.

After the jump are maps and charts of the GPS track of the ride.
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