BrianLe
08-08-2010, 00:51
I use Postholer.com as my journal site because it works much better on mobile devices --- no pictures or ads or whatever, works well to upload from or view on my smartphone (note that I have no association with postholer other than having submitted some suggestions over the past couple of years and one document that lives on that site now).
I walked the AT this year, and as on the PCT I appreciated the weather reports on the mobile version of postholer, a simple drop-down list of locations on the trail, generally within about 100 miles or less of the last one. Close enough, and easy to use. The result is a text-only weather forecast of the next seven days for the given location. FWIW, you can get more accurate than that if you know a specific latitude and longitude and are willing to enter that, but the drop-down list is very quick and easy to use.
The one drawback I found in using this along the AT this year was that the list of locations was somewhat weird --- several of the listed places I hadn't heard of and weren't listed in my data book.
Thus I submitted a set of suggested changes, and these has been implemented, so now the list is pretty logical (IMO) for an AT thru- or section-hiker.
Even if you don't use postholer as your journaling site, if you have internet access on a mobile device (likely a phone ...), you might give postholer a try for that: http://postholer.com/mobi/wx.php
I walked the AT this year, and as on the PCT I appreciated the weather reports on the mobile version of postholer, a simple drop-down list of locations on the trail, generally within about 100 miles or less of the last one. Close enough, and easy to use. The result is a text-only weather forecast of the next seven days for the given location. FWIW, you can get more accurate than that if you know a specific latitude and longitude and are willing to enter that, but the drop-down list is very quick and easy to use.
The one drawback I found in using this along the AT this year was that the list of locations was somewhat weird --- several of the listed places I hadn't heard of and weren't listed in my data book.
Thus I submitted a set of suggested changes, and these has been implemented, so now the list is pretty logical (IMO) for an AT thru- or section-hiker.
Even if you don't use postholer as your journaling site, if you have internet access on a mobile device (likely a phone ...), you might give postholer a try for that: http://postholer.com/mobi/wx.php