Category: Outdoors

  • How To Contribute Your GPS Track To OpenStreetMap From A Garmin GPS

    In this video, I’ll show you a common situation where we are hiking a new trail and the map doesn’t have it. However, if the map product uses OpenStreetMap (OSM), then we can submit a trace from our track file to the map set and eventually on the next refresh the trail will be added…

  • How To Export & Share GPS Tracks Using Garmin Explore and GaiaGPS

    I’ve been slowly trying to get away from the Garmin eco-system for the last few months. For years now, I’ve been adding tracks to my Garmin basecamp collection but as my personal computer usage goes to more portable devices like a smartphone or tablet (all the content you’ve seen from me in 2020 has come…

  • Tilley Wool Fedora Montana Hat

    Last time I talked about Tilley hats, they more mostly warm weather hats. Ever since I was thinking about expanding my collection to include hats that I could wear in colder months of the year; specifically from labour day to Easter. After browsing a number of sites that could ship to Canada, I couldn’t quite…

  • Garmin Montana 700 Series How To Tutorials

    The Garmin Montana 700 is the latest refresh within Garmin’s handheld line. From their website there are three models to choose from: 700 (base), 700i (base + inReach) and 750i (base + inreach +camera). Difference Between Montana 700 and Montana 700i Comparing the specs the main difference between the models is the inclusion of the…

  • What To Consider When Buying inReach vs ZOLEO Satellite Communicator

    If you’ve poked around the website over the past 8 years, you would have seen my many posts about the Delorme (now Garmin) inReach satellite communicator device. This was a 2-way communicator mainly geared towards the outdoorsy people. Over the years the technology was slowly moving towards an all-in-one GPS + Satellite communicator. However, over…

  • Garmin eTrex 22x 32x How To Tutorials

    The Garmin eTrex 22X / 32X GPS units is a great starter device for those wanting a small form factor and capable to do the basic GPS functions you’ve come to expect with a Garmin. We’ve listed a number of tutorials on this page that can help you with some of the more popular topics…

  • Garmin Vivoactive 4 / Venu Tutorials

    The latest generation in the vivo line, after the popular vivoactive 3 series gps watch. The Vivoactive 4 and Venu are identical in terms of functions however the main difference between the two is the display screen and overall shorter battery life on the Venu. Announced in September 2019, a week before the latest Apple…

  • Setting Up A Personal Weather Station Using AcuRite, Raspberry Pi And Windy

    One item that has been on my bucket list for years was setting up a personal weather station (PWS). I finally got around in choosing a weather station. But I really didn’t figure out the full architecture of what I wanted to do with the data. In this post, I’ll go over the high level…

  • Bikepacking Up Fire Tower Road At Kejimkujik National Park

    Took the fat bike to Kejimkujk National park to ride what used to be a popular mountain bike route called Fire Tower. This is straight forward, you biked up 10km to the fire tower and back. Grabbed some new gear for this trip as I dabbed my toes into bikepacking. -blackburn dry bag & roll…

  • The Cabins At Kidney Pond in Baxter State Park

    The Cabins At Kidney Pond in Baxter State Park

    Baxter State Park is a fantastic model of an independent park and reserve that many land managers here in Canada should be looking at. roll back the clock 70 years or more and you will find that Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were the outdoorsman playground, not Maine. I mean there’s a mile high mountain…