23
May
Sailing Costa Brava
A 3 day sailing weekend along the Costa Brava
Photo Gallery: Sailing Costa Brava (35 pictures)
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10
Jul
Olot
A summer hike in Olot, Spain’s volcanic area.
Photo Gallery: Olot (12 pictures)
11
Apr
Camping Aquarius
10 days of kiteboarding, hiking, volleyball, BBQ and other things at the Aquarius Camping in Sant Pere Pescador. More photos from my friend Claudia are available here.
What was planned as a 5-hour hike ended up as 8 hours, due to the fact that we got totally lost. However, we discovered really cool places (canyons and rivers) and thanks to Android’s MyTracks we found a way back without hiking all the way back (which would have taken even longer).
Total Distance: 26.17 km (16.3 mi)
Total Time: 7:32:13
Average Moving Speed: 6.17 km/h (3.8 mi/h)
Max Speed: 12.89 km/h (8.0 mi/h)
Min Elevation: 785 m (2575 ft)
Max Elevation: 1182 m (3877 ft)
Elevation Gain: 1391 m (4562 ft)
Snowshoeing in the Parc Natural de Cadí-Moixeró.
14
Mar
Andorra – Pas de la Casa
Another great snowboarding weekend in Grand Valira (Andorra) with fantastic weather and snow conditions.
I also played around with Android MyTracks and recorded a few of our runs. Check them out on Google Maps or with Google Earth.
Here some statistics:
Total Distance: 70.64 km (43.9 mi)
Total Time: 7:39:57
Moving Time: 4:33:33
Average Speed: 9.67 km/h (6.0 mi/h)
Average Moving Speed: 15.49 km/h (9.6 mi/h)
Max Speed: 75.60 km/h (47.0 mi/h)
Min Elevation: 1753 m (5752 ft)
Max Elevation: 2678 m (8787 ft)
Elevation Gain: 7528 m (24697 ft)
Max Grade: 47 %
Min Grade: -42 %
Recorded: Sat Mar 13 09:38:52 GMT+01:00 2010
6
Mar
Park Güell
Nature, sunshine, smiling people, street music … that’s all you need for a happy life 
Gallery: Park Güell (12 pictures)
Google Earth: Park Güell
A weekend in Roses (Costa Brava) and Cap de Creus.
- Gallery: Cap de Creus (43 pictures)
- Google Earth: Cap de Creus
21
Feb
Barcelona City Tour
Have been playing around with My Tracks for Google Android this weekend. It’s an application that tracks your location on a map (e.g. during a bike tour or a day of skiing down the slopes or whatever else you can think of) and monitors real time statistics like time, distance, speed and elevation. I didn’t log the whole thing, because I was already on low battery when I left the house, but this should give you a pretty good idea of how it works. Here are the two links to view the route: [ Google Maps | Google Earth ]. FYI, I had my Nexus One almost the whole time in my pocket. For that I’m pretty surprised with the resulting accuracy of my track.
My Tracks doesn’t support adding pictures, yet, but you can easily do that with Google’s My Maps Editor for Android. And other than playing around with new mobile technology all day long I was also able to enjoy another beautiful “winter” day in Barcelona (see pictures below).
A quick 2.5h mountain bike tour with Christof around Tibidabo. Here’s the tracker log.
