raising heller

so, recently my parents were in town and we went to the REI corporate headquarters in seattle (that place is AMAZING). we found a book on hikes in the northwest that are good for kids. this is what i love about living in seattle. there’s SO much to do and it seems like we’re always discovering new things. well, yesterday we decided to go on our first family hike of the year. since i’m really big into documentation, i’ll be using the runkeeper app on my iphone, along with the runkeeper website to document our hikes. i’m not being paid for my endorsement of runkeeper, but (and i think i’ve mentioned it before) it’s one of the most amazing apps. anytime you’re going on a hike, walk, run or whatever you start the app on your phone and take off. when you’re done, you stop the app. it tracks your entire activity mapping it out using GPS and even tracks your varying speed and elevation changes. it will then sync that data back to it’s website where you can login and view your activities (along with being able to see it in the app on your phone). if you decided to snap some pictures from your phone on your hike, it will sync those to the website as well posting them to the exact location where the pictures were taken. how rad is that? you can also share that data with the world as we did below by embedding it into a website. if you click on the “view details at runkeeper.com” link, it will take you to the activity page where you can see all the details and view it in satellite view (something they’ll hopefully allow us to embed soon).

so, this summer we’ll be posting our hiking exploits along with photos. for this last hike at snoqualmie falls, i accidentally left my phone in the car so i created the hike manually on the runkeeper website.

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