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WHO: aspartame a possible carcinogen
https://fortune.com/well/2023/06/29/world-health-organization-aspartame-possible-carcinogen/amp/
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FDA to intervene in wild CBD claims
If you want to watch a hippie's head explode, tell them that if CBD really cured everything, "big pharma" would have never let "them" legalize it. 😆 The company Curaleaf claims that it has developed products that can treat a slew of the most formidable conditions found in humans, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,…
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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Male Pattern Hair Loss
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/1/214
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Fitbit accounts will be replaced by Google accounts
https://www.androidauthority.com/fitbit-accounts-ending-3212066/
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Patagonia founder donates entire company to the future 👍
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/14/patagonia-founder-donates-entire-company-to-fight-climate-change.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/09/14/patagonia-founder-gives-away-entire-company-to-fight-climate-change/ https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/
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Everybody please send good luck right now
Two hikers are stranded on Baring Mountain, surrounded by wildfire. Snoho HRT sent a bird for them because there's no other way off the mountain, it couldn't fly due to turbulence from the fires. There are two more en route now to bring these hikers home. This has to work, there's no other way.
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Night hiking in Paradise
A good friend and I went down to Rainier yesterday. We arrived at Paradise in a white out in mid afternoon; the forecast predicted fog in the morning burning off before lunch leaving bring sunshine the rest of the day. Instead, we got proverbial pea soup. We hiked a few miles up the unrelentingly steep moraines until the…
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We got the cats activity trackers with GPS
My neighbor bought six, and gave me three. Bear and Pixie have been wearing them for more than a month, the kittens use them more sporadically. They're still smol and need a harness to carry the tracker, whereas grown up cats just attach them to the collar. Pixie used to be a stray and demands to spend her days outside.…
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Amazing hiker rescue footage
This was 3 days ago. Sauk Mountain trail in the North Cascades. https://youtu.be/hGbdEVbwYWY 👍 King County Sheriff!
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Jolly Mountain via Sasse Ridge
I almost cheated by approaching this Teanaway peak from the Salmon la Sac side, it turned the affair into a 7 mile hike from 13, and every step was new to me. People normally approach from the Medras/De Roux side. Jolly is a Teanaway 20 summit, but less visited because it burned a few years ago. The days following the…
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Di2 comes to 105
https://www.velonews.com/gear/road-gear/shimano-105-goes-electronic/ 👍
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Alcohol, sleep, HRV, exercise readiness and performance
I've been looking at the Garmin section on reddit to find out about a software update I'm waiting for for my watch. I've noticed a lot of posts there with a common theme: people have these different metrics on their wrists like sleep quality, stress, recovery. People see how they're affected by drinking, people sleep…
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Video: hiking in the Pacific Northwest
This isn't my video, I'm checking trail conditions and saw this in a recent trip report. It's awesome! So I wanted to share. 🙂 https://youtu.be/oESUu4Bd-6k This is the Eightmile Lake trail, in Leavenworth WA.
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Color me red and call me a lobster!
Screenshot from Garmin Connect, from yesterday's open water swim. I sprained my hand pretty badly so I'm back floating and swimming snow angel style. My watch saw an average of 22k lux during the swim. You can see towards the end when a cloud blew over and told me it's time to move on with the day. I've had long swims when…
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This is what 1,700 calories looks like
This is a summit I've been wanting to do for years, but never as a priority. It's a short and very, very steep hike, I usually prefer longer ones. Turns out there are side trails and I was able to spend as much time as I wanted in the Snoqualmie highlands. There was a lot more snow on the ground than I expected, much…
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Vacation pics from Ross Lake
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Hammerhead to lose Di2 functionality
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/shimano-cuts-hammerhead-integrations-after-sram-acquisition/ FYI.
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Garmin solar watches & sunburn
I got a Fenix 7 Solar on Monday. I've been playing with it and figuring it out. There's a widget that shows me the solar input to the battery today. It has a graph, and a grand total, in lux hours. Image below. I can't shake the idea that next time I get a sunburn, this should tell me my limit. Whatever number the watch…
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Garmin's new bike radar has evidence camera!
This may be of use to some in here. Garmin has a new Varia radar unit, built into a trail light and with a 1080p camera this time. The camera can be always on or off, or it can be triggered by the radar and record whenever there is traffic behind you. Battery life is 6 hours with everything on, the light in solid (not…
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New bike radar has evidence camera
This isn't something I'm personally interested in, since I already have a radar, but may be helpful to some in here. Garmin's new Varia has a 1080p camera built in. It can be always on, always off, or radar activated meaning it will record whenever there's traffic behind you. Worst case battery life is 6 hours, with…
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It's new Garmin day!! 😁
My Fenix 7 arrived today and I'm in ❤️ all over again. Touch screen is so nice! The maps became so much more useful. They were good to have before, but scrolling went from a royal pita to natural and no drama. Small victories: I can finally do separate profiles for road vs gravel riding and have them tagged appropriately…
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Yay wheels! ❤️
I redid the sealant and replaced one of my valve cores, and just enjoyed my first ride on my nicer wheels since last fall. Some air was leaking, I wasn't in the mood to deal with it, and have been using some box section alloy wheels with tubes in the meantime. What a profound difference! Great wheels make it feel like an…
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Trees need Fitbits too
You might look at a tree swaying in the wind and see botanical tranquility—a hypnotic back and forth of life interacting with air. Scientists appreciate that too, but they also see something else: data in motion. It turns out that the way a tree moves says a lot about its biology, the local hydrology, and the landscape at…
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Interesting article on sleep tracking
A lot of this is pretty common sense, but it's a good recap and I think a lot of people will enjoy it. You can read or listen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/20/wearable-sleep-data/
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My watch died again. 🥺
About a month ago my watch (Garmin Fenix 6X) suffered some kind of malfunction and stopped working completely. It was only able to display weird screens and couldn't even tell the time. Garmin rushed me a new one, which got a similar glitch this morning. It can still tell time and track exercise, but won't talk to my…
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How to get raw data from your Garmin
https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB This pulls the data from Connect, stores it locally, and allows you to use the tools of your choice to analyze it.
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Riding with two Garmins
This is a very specific question, but I think there might be a few people in here in the same boat. I have a Fenix watch and an Edge 130. When I ride, I use both in bike mode. Only the watch uploads to the cloud, so I'm not double counting miles or anything. The little 130 that could is a great complement to the watch, I…
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Calories burned wrestling kittens
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Can your Garmin transubstantiate?
I bought a Fenix 6X most of 3 years ago, something happened today, and now I have a Tactix. At least according to the watch face. The phone considers the watch no longer paired and I'm not able to pair them again. I have never had a problem of any kind with this watch. Will probably have to factory reset it. This started…
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Peleton to cut 2,800 jobs 😳
FYI. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/08/peloton-chief-excecutive-jobs-cuts-sales-slump When you buy exercise equipment it's important to know if it can be used without a subscription and what would happen if the company that made it went out of business.
