Mark Hastings favorite websites

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Good Hiking Sites

About two years ago I became an avid hiker.  My wife says it's my mid-life crisis, but she doesn't seem to mind because it's cheaper than a sports car and safer than a girlfriend.  Since, I hike over 300 miles each summer.  Here is a list of hikes I have done so far Hike List.

• The Washington Trails Association is an exelent location for trail reports for Northwest Hiking.
• The Attrition.ws site has good reviews and nice pictures of many Northwest Hikes.
• If you like waterfalls, the Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest site is the place to go.
• A list of Washington's highest peaks.
• This site has some great trip reports with some amazing pictures at times NWHikers.net.
• I found this site by John Scurlock, he has some amazing pictures taken from his airplane.
• Don't forget to pick up a trail pass before you go.  The USDA Forest Service site has all the information.  Also you can find trail head conditions.

Weather Sites

• This Northwest Weather site has alot of raw weather data and links to satellite and the National Data Buoy Center.
• Washington State Mountain Pass information.
• This page is a legend for the symbols you see on some weather pages.

Digital Camera Sites

• This site "Digital Camera Reviews" has more technical data on cameras that the manufacter's web site.
• Steve DigiCams has good reviews as well, plus a good daily news and Photo of the Day pages.
• The DPReview is another very good site for reviews and user opinions.

Engineering Nerd Sites

• If you want to learn some web languages, check out the W3Schools.
• A good site for web standards is the W3C.

Just for fun

• A must view site for engineers, Dilbert.
• If you want to see Star wars in 5 minutes, check out Dude Studios, too funny!
• If you enoy a cross between The Farside and Southpark, try Dr Fun.
• A very weird site Bunny suicides

Last Updated 8-21-2013