Did an end-to-end test. Towed the kayak with my bike 5 miles to the lake, then disassembled the cart and stowed it in the kayak. Folded up the bike and bungeed it down on the rear deck. Went kayaking around the lake for a while, then reversed everything and biked back home.
It's a lot slower than putting the kayak on the car, but... I gotta say, it felt pretty awesome to head out knowing I could go anywhere there's water or a trail. And switch between them as needed.
It’s that time of year again — #colorado folks into #kayaking#canoeing#SUP and other sports on open water: lakes in most of Colorado will be deadly cold until summer. Mountain lakes are often deadly cold year round. If you end up in the water, you have minutes to get out before you are too cold to swim or climb. Wear a PFD, pay attention to the weather, practice self-rescue, and try swimming in water as cold as the water you’ll be on/in. Our lakes are lethally cold.
I've been experimenting with #360 and #panoramic#photography since the 1990s, since QuickTime VR was a thing, trying desperately to capture the beauty of the world.
This is one of my first attempts from 1997 or so. I was on a #kayaking/#mountainbike trip in #Canyonlands National Park and had gotten out of the kayak to scramble to the top of Bowknot Bend. Once at the top, I took out my trusty #Sony#Mavica digital camera that recorded 640x480 images onto 2.5" floppy disks and snapped a whole bunch of photos as I pretended to be a human tripod.
Weeks later, at home, I hand stitched the photos in #Photoshop 3, or whatever version was current at the time. This was the beginning of a long journey.