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I recently purchased a SPOT GPS tracking device.   It’s remarkably simple with four buttons – help, power, ok and 911.    Pushing ‘help’ sends a page to your list of trusted friends and is intended for things like ‘my car’s broken down’, etc.    The 911 button is obvious which leaves the ok.    Pushing ‘ok’ sends a page to your list of friends and also records your GPS postiion.    If you push and hold down OK, the pager goes into tracking mode and will send out your location every 10 – 20 minutes.    This can be be tracked on a map so folks at home know where you are 🙂

I spent a little time today hacking up a Live Maps mashup that shows our planned route (in red) and the progress we’re making (in blue) as reported by our SPOT tracker.

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Just got a nice package in the mail today with final details for our upcoming TGO hike in May.  We’re hikers #99 and #100 out of an amazing 379.   I was lamenting the fact that my training regime hasn’t been all I would have hoped and thought better of it since there are lots of over 60’s on the hike including some 80 year old folks.  Amazing!

Our starting point of Dornie and finishing point of St Cyrus seems popular with 49 starting from Dornie and 89 ending in St Cyrus.   I’m sure it’s going to be quite social 🙂