I live in a beautiful area with mountains EVERYWHERE.
Before I moved here, I would climb them every trip.
Now that I’ve lived here, I never do.
Today I took my 9 year old son and his friend to climb (hike) Pinnacle Peak, an easy one nearby my house.
Just checking the map of my trip for the day, and it’s 7.8 miles there — we stayed for 1 hour 23 minutes.
You can see that the parking lot was full so I parked outside on the street, and I got there at 8:40, then left at 10:04:
Here’s a picture from near the top:
If I want to know how recently I was there last, I can quickly create a landmark from a stop report by clicking here:
Then create it, assigning to the Arizona landmark group while I’m at it:
Going all the way back to February, running a landmark report, I find my last time going there:
Note that you can go back >>> 3 YEARS <<< with GPS Insight (or more if you ask nicely) to get information like this.
Most competitors only let you go back 90 days & charge a huge amount if you ever need the data beyond that from them.
The last time I was at Pinnacle Peak was back in February, on 2/2/09, for 1.4 hours.
I need to get there more often. Now that it’s hot again, I think I may need to wait again until Winter.
Rob.
May 25th, 2009 11:19 pm
Hi Rob, excellent innovative use of the system. This would certainly even have commercial value to a numbe rof businesses in the recreation/outdoor industry. I hope busines sowners reading this note you comment about getting data back carefully. Not only do some companies charge like a wounded bull for data 3 months or older, but others, perhaps for legal reasons, routinely destroy data over 90 days old … and you can’t get it back at any price. Anyone who has the misfortune to be sued regarding an accident or has an Hours of Service or Labor Relations complaint filed against them will soon find out how older data can become very important, when trying to prove your company did or didn’t do somehting.
This tracking data is actually small in terms of the mass of some other type sof data and storage media these days is almost too cheap to measure, so no matter whose system you chose, save that data. I always advised clients in the past to chose avendor who stored their data long-term and to keep a second, perhaps monthly backup on their own … you might never need it, but then again if you ever so …..you