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Ride n’ Hike

Posted on January 21, 2013 by revmook

This ride started at Norm’s Restaurant in Santa Monica; cheap food, big portions. We left for a little cruise up the PCH then pause in front of Pepperdine to take in the ocean view. Next, it’s canyon carving in the famed Santa Monica Mountains. We took Latigo Canyon Road and Kanan Dune Road to Rustic Canyon General Store & Grill, 2598 Sierra Creek Rd, Agoura CA 91301. Then, a bit more of the twisties on Mulholland Hwy to Yerba Buena Rd which took us back to the ocean toward our final destination: hiking in Leo Carrillo State Park to a SEA CAVE.

Photos stolen from Facebook, from Marcel M., Richie T., Jeff C. and Walt C. Mine are still not developed yet.

Total distance: 33.5 mi
Total climbing: 8743 ft

Download file: 20130118.gpx

Vasquez Rocks

Posted on January 14, 2013 by revmook

Total distance: 105.12 mi
Total climbing: 7232 ft

Download file: 20130111.gpx

Photos by Marcel M, stolen from Facebook.

Motorcycle trip; complete map.

Posted on December 19, 2012 by revmook

Here we go, all the .gpx files I collected along my motorcycle trip, on one big map. Unfortunatly, this file is much to large (7.7 MB) for Google Maps to parse, so it’s represented as a static image. I used the command line tool gpsbabel to merge 35+ tracks together. Check out my blog post about this tool here. –> https://blog.benmook.com/185/

Download the final .gpx file here

Lost/ Random photos

Posted on October 31, 2012 by revmook

When I mailed my big ass DSLR back to LA, I forgot to take the photos off of the card! Now that I’m back, here are those images. Also included are images from my phone, and stuff from Facebook.

Texas, across the desert, Mesa, Salton Sea and back to Los Angeles

Posted on October 31, 2012 by revmook

Total distance: 268.9 mi
Total climbing: 9335 ft

Download file: endtrip.gpx

Total distance: 281.78 mi
Total climbing: 4411 ft

Download file: 20121018.gpx

Total distance: 101.56 mi
Total climbing: 2061 ft

Download file: 20121017.gpx

Total distance: 159.71 mi
Total climbing: 5907 ft

Download file: 20121016.gpx

Total distance: 271.75 mi
Total climbing: 10264 ft

Download file: 20121015.gpx

Total distance: 219.08 mi
Total climbing: 9217 ft

Download file: 20121014.gpx

Florida, to Tejas!

Posted on October 11, 2012 by revmook

I didn’t take too many photos and I got wet quite a bit riding in the Florida panhandle. I hiked out 2.5 miles threw a swamp to a camping spot and had the worst experience with mosquitoes evea.

Total distance: 263.61 mi
Total climbing: 4604 ft

Download file: 20121005.gpx

Total distance: 267.7 mi
Total climbing: 2763 ft

Download file: 20121004.gpx

Total distance: 157.36 mi
Total climbing: 2612 ft

Download file: 20121002.gpx

Total distance: 129.66 mi
Total climbing: 2725 ft

Download file: 20121001.gpx

Total distance: 399.95 mi
Total climbing: 2847 ft

Download file: 20120930.gpx

Total distance: 148.27 mi
Total climbing: 760 ft

Download file: 20120927.gpx

Florida

Posted on September 23, 2012 by revmook

I’m still in Florida, which is nice because I always felt like I should spend more time here. Some friends from LA flew out here and we traveled around and saw things I would never normally do, like check out an alligator farm, or look at the Coral Castle. I’ve also pulled my old rusty car from storage and put it back together somewhat. here are a bunch of photos.

Middle of Kansas, to Chicago, then Florida.

Posted on September 7, 2012 by revmook

Total distance: 113.8 mi
Total climbing: 3716 ft

Download file: 20120825.gpx

Total distance: 154.53 mi
Total climbing: 6861 ft

Download file: 20120826.gpx

Total distance: 192.8 mi
Total climbing: 11260 ft

Download file: 20120827.gpx

Total distance: 148.81 mi
Total climbing: 5471 ft

Download file: 20120828.gpx

Total distance: 19.34 mi
Total climbing: 1488 ft

Download file: 20120830.gpx

Total distance: 33.9 mi
Total climbing: 801 ft

Download file: 20120831.gpx

Total distance: 202.5 mi
Total climbing: 4782 ft

Download file: 20120901.gpx

Total distance: 152.78 mi
Total climbing: 12843 ft

Download file: 20120902.gpx

Total distance: 181.46 mi
Total climbing: 18181 ft

Download file: 20120903.gpx

Total distance: 317.76 mi
Total climbing: 6171 ft

Download file: 20120904.gpx

Total distance: 185.53 mi
Total climbing: 1290 ft

Download file: 20120905.gpx

Total distance: 81.44 mi
Total climbing: 1782 ft

Download file: 20120906.gpx

Colorado Springs to the middle of Kansas

Posted on August 25, 2012 by revmook

I took off pretty early in the morning from the Springs, I thought it was going to rain all day, but I stayed dry. I ended up next to a dam, by a lake where I found a beer coozie on the beach and free wireless internet provided by the “rural phone company”. I almost dropped the bike on a muddy farm road, and almost buried the rear wheel trying to turn around. That would have sucked. Here are some photos for the day.