Cool Stuff

I wish I had ridden into work today... at exactly the time that I would have been riding along the Great Embankment in Pittsford a bear was spotted on the canal towpath.  Check out the story in today's Democrat and Chronicle.  Take a close look at the structure over the canal in the picture of the bear, and compare it to the structure in the picture I posted last Friday (June 11th).  That's the same guard gate in both shots, just taken from different directions (I was shooting toward the east, and the person who shot the bear was looking to the west, on the same trail).  There's also some video posted on the WHEC TV web site.

Also... one of my colleagues pointed out today that it's possible to post all of the GPS data I've been collecting on the Garmin web site, which shows not only a map of the route taken, but also the elevation and speed at any given point along the route.  You can even play an animation which shows all of this data in an interactive fashion.  It's hard to describe, so maybe it would be best to just click on the links below and play around with the stuff that's posted there:

Ride to Weedsport
Bike New York 5-Boro Ride
Tour de Cure Century

Obviously these are only a few of the rides I've taken this year. Maybe I'll upload a few others as time and energy permit.  Oh, yeah...  After going to one of these sites, if you happen to have Google Earth installed on your computer, click on the "Details" link in the upper right portion of the page, then click on the "Google Earth" button directly below the map.  Very cool...