As I mentioned in my last post, I was just on vacation for two weeks - in Panama. I took quite a few photos during the trip - I put the first half up on Flickr here. The rest are on Tom’s camera and he’s in Columbia for a week, so I’ll add his photos after he gets back.

On the nerdier side, I also took my Forerunner 205 with us and used it to track a hike up Volcan Baru outside the town of Boquete. You can download the Google Earth .kml file here and can take a look at the data on MotionBased.com here. The Google Earth photos aren’t that detailed, but you can still get a pretty good idea how big the mountain is and how steep the trail was! The Forerunner undercalculated the distance by a pretty large margin (It measured 6.63 miles, but according the signs and all the info we could find, the trail was over 13.5 kilometers which is over 8 miles). I’m not sure why that is, but it could have been our very slow hiking speed, tree cover, cloud cover, and huge elevation gain threw it off.

Update: Zipped up the kml file so it would download instead of displaying the text.