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On Sunday a friend, his dog, and I hiked the 2805m Calanda mountain in Graubunden, Switzerland (photos | google earth). This is the highest I’ve ever hiked and the scenery around us reminded me of what you’d see from an airplane. It was spectacular! As expected, the hike down was painful and I’m still feeling [...]

This afternoon I cycled up Hoher Kasten in Appenzellerland. It’s been a while since I last went mountain biking and I’m surprised that I waited this long. It was great! I found the track on gps-tracks.com and was able to program my GPS to lead me. This is very convenient as it allows me to [...]

I’ve added a new virtual reality photo of Multertor, St. Gallen to my QTVR page. I changed the process so that I no longer need to take a handheld ‘down’ shot. Take a look to see what I mean. Don’t mind the half car; I was too lazy to clone it out.

10-15 July 2006 Today was the end of the Tour de Schwiiz. On Monday morning we met in Rorschach to start our six day journey along the ‘Seen-Route #9′ to Vevey. The weather was perfect with lots of sun and little rain. Three nights we stayed in a ‘Schlaf-im-Stroh!‘, one night in a caravan, and [...]

Switzerland to Sweden by Bike (~2500km) 5 June – 4 July 2006 The following text is paraphrased from the journal I kept on a four week bike tour from St. Gallen, Switzerland to just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. The trip was planned for months in advance and lived up to the experience I wished and [...]