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Kings Canyon: Paradise Valley

Here’s half the GPS track for the day-hike from Road’s End to lower Paradise Valley. I only included the “down” track because we had trouble getting a lock in the canyon for the first half of the hike. When we stopped for lunch I switched GPS receivers and got a decent lock most of the […]

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Kings Canyon: Hotel Creek Trail

Here’s a GPS track from the Hotel Creek Trail to the Cedar Grove Overlook in Kings Canyon National Park: And here’s the altitude graph for that hike: We did this one in about 2 hours and 45 minutes; we went pretty slowly, having hiked to Paradise Valley (~13 miles) the day before.

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Jury Duty Status Page Monitor

I was on call for jury duty last week. I wrote this little Perl script to check the jury status web page for my county and shoot me an email when it was updated. This script isn’t all that clean (it doesn’t f_lock the checksum file among other things), but it was a quick and […]