[pct-l] Hiker weather at town stops

[Greg Hardwick]

Another idea:  I had thought about this for Yogi's book, but she may not be 
interested.

cell phone coverage zones.  Maybe locations could be rated a 1 to 5 (stars 
or whatever) for the ability to pick up cell zones.

I would imagine, bit by bit, hikers could build up a pretty good data base 
that is accurate.  I have no earthly idea if this sort of thing depends on 
your provider.

Just a "blue sky" idea.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dascalos" <peter at dascalos.com>
To: "'arm chair'" <armchairhiker at gmail.com>; "'pct'" 
<pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiker weather at town stops


> Here is a link someone posted a while back that has promise. Still needs a
> little work but gives you the information you are looking for.
> http://fvs.blaststream.com/testApp/sharedobjects/_definst_/icons/app/weather
> map.html
> I will be adding a number of links like this to my PCT Helpful links page 
> at
>
> http://www.onthetrail.org/Outdoors/PCT/pctlinks.html
>
> Regards,
> Peter "OC" Dascalos
> OnTheTrail.org
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of arm chair
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:46 AM
> To: pct
> Subject: [pct-l] Hiker weather at town stops
>
> To any weather watchers out there -
>
> Does anyone already have a solution to the following:
>
> Hiker arrives at a town stop that has internet access. Go to a web site 
> that
> shows ten day forcasts for the next section of trail.
>
> It would be great if the hiker doesn't have to do a lot of entering zip
> codes or towns etc. Perhaps it could be pre-set up by the hiker or someone
> else?
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> town A -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town B -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town C -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town D -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>
> It would seem that due to time constraints on public computers and the 
> need
> for the hiker to get other email etc done, that the weather function 
> should
> be very quick and perhaps printable.
>
> So how about it? Alot of people on the list watch the weather sites. What
> would be a quick solution.
>
> - armchair
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