March 2006 - Diary of Scott Morris

Arizona Trail, Catalinas with Tim McCabe

Tim McCabe started from the Mexico Border on 3/14/06. He’s riding the whole trail in preparation for the AZT 300. I joined him for a day and a half as he crossed the Catalinas.

It was an early start, leaving home @5:40.

Sunday was our second winter storm. We left Monday morning. I …. [Continue reading]

Diary Down for several months

The diary is down, due to a security flaw in the old scripts I was using. Turns out installing “fusion news php” is a good way to get your site hacked.

So from about March to August in 2006 there was no diary. I did quite a few long rides, including two of the …. [Continue reading]

Garmin X Series

Finally got an eTrex Legend CX in. TopoFusion (and other programs) have problems communicating with the new X units, but after an hour and a half of debugging and coding we’ve got X support now.

We’ll do a quick beta version and then a full release.

It’s a nice little unit and it was cool …. [Continue reading]

Rain

We finally got a tiny bit of rain. So there was really only one thing to do: go ride in it.

My bike even got a tad bit of mud on it. Myself and a fair number of other denizens of this place known as Tucson were out enjoying it on the river trail. The …. [Continue reading]

Scott
Digital Nomad, nowhere, USA

Lifelong mountain biker, trail mapper and programmer. Sometimes bikepacker, sometimes runner, sometimes packrafter. I love to ride my bike, get out, and explore this beautiful planet we find ourselves on.

I live in a 20 foot GeoPro Trailer, traveling about the west. Main author of TopoFusion GPS Software, co-founder of Trackleaders.com.

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