Kevin Bridges

I got to go do some down hill mountain biking with Tyler and beeradb over labor day weekend. It was completely sick ... Here's a video of the route I was riding ... check it out about 6:28 into it ... that was my favorite part.

Something bit my hand on one of the berms ... here's the end result hehe

From Labor Day Bike Ride

This was sooo fun ... can't wait to do eet again!!!!!

I just whipped up a new site after climbing Humboldt Peak. The site is called http://14er.kevinbridges.org/ and has links to some useful information including Picasa web Photo Albums and Slideshows. I'm posting the announcements here until I get a block running on this site to communicate with the 14er site.

• You can read the Trip Report
• Read about Humboldt Peak
• Visit the site (your username for this site will work on the 14er site)

Nailed the first 14er of the season over the weekend and posted the images in the Torrey's Photo Album. The weather could not have been better and I've come to the stark realization that my physical conditioning is in need of improvement. That's ok though because there are roughly 53 more Colorado 14ers out there waiting to be climbed. This is my 4th ascent of Torrey. As soon as I am complete with the next version of the Picasa Module I'm going to create a subdomain specifically for trip reports.

Here's a trip report for Mount Galbraith. I've been playing with some of the Google API's and think I've automated the translation of data from the gps and camera directly to the web. Galbraith is a very easy trail that is decent for warming up to larger items like the 14ers we will be documenting. Make sure to read the full blog posting and not just the summary to see the maps and satellite imagery.

I'm not going to write very much about this particular trail because the main focus has been integrating the different technologies into a seamless platform deliverable by this blog. The general concept is to be able to stop and take a picture that translates into the map below complete with gps coordinates and clickable pictures. It has to be totally automated for when we start doing the 14ers again. I'll upload the raw gps information soon as well.

If you'd like to view this complete with a waypoint selector Click Here. The data file for Google Earth can be downloaded here. The raw images are stored in a Picasa Album and are available at high resolution.

Last night the weather was pleasant and calm. Woke up this morning to a bit of a snowstorm that reminded me I was in Colorado. I had to be a dork and take a picture of my Jeep since it is the first snowfall I've had it in ;P

I made the commitment and moved back to Colorado.  After a week long ordeal of packing and driving I made it up here.  Any doubts I had about coming back immediately disapeared as I left Kansas and entered Colorado.  Kansas is a horid place and each time I drive through it my dislike for it increases.  The wind was sufficient to cut my gas mileage almost in half and the exhaustion from trying to stay on the road was intense.  Have been able to visit a few of my old friends and everybody is doing great out here.  Spent the day snowboarding at Keystone yesterday and am beginning the job se