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Finding trail covers: near-optimal decompositions of graph states as linear fusion networks
William Cashman, Giovanni de Felice, Aleks Kissinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18375

Finding trail covers: near-optimal decompositions of graph states as linear fusion networks
Quantum compilation requires the development of new algorithms that optimise the cost of implementing quantum computations on physical hardware. Often this gives rise to problems which are asymptotically hard to solve classically, and for which heuristics and reductions to known problems are of great practical use. In this paper, we study three graph-theoretic problems which can be seen as generalisations of the Eulerian and Hamiltonian path problems. These arise in photonic implementations of …

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

As a Black, Christian former Democrat with little previous engagement with Jewish causes, Leo Terrell, now 70, seemed an improbable pick to lead the effort to
“root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,”
as the task force announcement put it.
But his zealous conversion and penchant for media bombast made him a perfect bullhorn for the task force’s actual mission:
to strong-arm colleges into stripping away any vestige of “wokeness” in their …

The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History
Leo Terrell’s past is at odds with Trump’s description of an “incredibly successful” attorney. Documents obtained by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveal a trail of legal disputes and unpaid debts.

Sah gerade eine sehr schönes Video über CDT - Continental Devide Trail 2025 - sehr interessante Bikepacking-Tour.

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Panagiotis Kourtesis, Evgenia Giatzoglou, Panagiotis Vorias, Katerina Alkisti Gounari, Eleni Orfanidou, Chrysanthi Nega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19519

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (27-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test with three pointing methods: eye-tracking, head-gaze, and a six-degree-of-freedom hand controller. Completion time, spatial accuracy, and error counts for the simple (Trail A) and alternating (Trail B) sequences were analysed in 3 x 2 x 2 mixed-model ANOVAs; p…

hey friends! One more photo from my recent hike into the #mountains .
My way went from this point to the right over the summit (not seen on the photo), down to the ridge (right into the photo), along the ridge, and down into the middle of the photo.
An amazing day and an impressive trail!

wanderer is a decentralized, self-hosted trail database.
You can upload your recorded GPS tracks or create new ones
and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue.
https://wanderer.to/

Signs on Capital Crescent Trail next to Kenwood. (Neighborhood that led successful fight to partially reverse road diet on Little Falls Parkway, road where prior to road diet cyclists & pedestrians crossing on trail were repeatedly hit, one killed, by drivers.)

Spain wildfires: Decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but local economies can prevent further destruction https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spain-wildfires-decades-rural-decline.html

Spain wildfires: Decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but local economies can prevent further destruction
Every summer, forest fires sweep across Spain, dominating headlines and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. This year's have been especially harsh, with devastating fires thus far in Tarifa, Zamora, the Madrid area, Galicia and Extremadura, while the UNESCO-listed natural park of Las Médulas, in León, has been completely wiped out.

Happy runner at the Thom B Trail Race at Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #running #sports

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Woody Guthrie:
🎵 Oregon Trail
#WoodyGuthrie
https://woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/track/oregon-trail
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JO31DbbeEpHwNFZVbLPVI

From Bsky (and colleague):
Cargo Bike Test Drive event is this Saturday AM in Arlington (MA). An event where owners of cargo bikes volunteer their time to help those considering cargo bikes figure out the right cargo bike for them. Test drives in a safe for newbies environment.
https://www.familybikeride.org/testdrive

Family Bike Ride - Cargo Bike Test Drive
Register Location: Thorndike Field on Minuteman Trail This will be our 9th crowd sourced event to benefit parents considering cargo bikes to transport their children by helping them to be able talk to a variety current parent owners that live in their community and try out the bikes. The goal is

"En 2011, l’OMS accueille une nouvelle maladie dans son catalogue: la bigorexie. Initialement réservée aux adeptes des salles de musculation, le terme décrit désormais l’addiction au sport."
#santé #trail

Could $50 million payday await 4th-year Cowboy on comeback trail? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/20/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-54-de-sam-williams/84817110007/…

1/x) I thought I would return without any photos at all from our hike last Saturday to the #Wallberg near #Tegernsee
But back home I noticed some potential in at least some of the photos so I invested some time in them and compiled a little video as well.

Wallberg Beyond the Crowds
Last weekend’s hike to the Wallberg near Tegernsee offered a calm alternative to the usual crowds thanks to overcast skies and cool temperatures. We enjoyed varied views, a peaceful ascent, and a choice descent on a narrow trail with photo-worthy moments, while testing a new action cam along the way

Tour 254: #Brandenburg: #Wanderung Natura Trail #MärkischeSchweiz (ca. 16 km)
Der #Wanderweg

Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision
Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Harrison Souchereau, Imad Pasha, Shany Danieli, Roberto Abraham, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Yimeng Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10220

Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision
A unique linear trail of diffuse galaxies was recently identified in the NGC 1052 field. This trail includes the remarkable, ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 which lack dark matter and host unusually luminous globular clusters. It has been proposed that the trail formed via a high-speed collision between two gas-rich dwarf galaxies. This scenario predicts that the trail galaxies are kinematically connected and follow a specific trend in radial velocity as a function of position, based on the …

Some selective focus nature shots from a hike down part of the Buckeye Trail in Mogodore, Ohio. Spent a good quality afternoon with my wife, her cousin and our dog just getting lost in the woods.
All taken with the Nikon d3400 in aperture priority, lens wide open. ISO 400.
#photography

Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

R.B. And I hiked the Taughannock Falls Rim Trail this morning. So beautiful.
#hiking #nature #seenonmydogwwalk

Ich schlürfe meine Urlaubsaustern ja lieber mit spanischen Omas bei lokaler Blasmusik auf Ausflugsschiffen, aber Maine ist sicher auch nicht schlecht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/travel/maine-oyster-tr…

Slurping Toward Nirvana on the Maine Oyster Trail
Savoring all things fresh and briny while on a mission to visit all four of Maine’s oyster regions in just one long weekend.

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Mastodon Starter Pack: For Mountain Enthusiasts 🏔️ - Mastodon Starter Pack
Accounts posting on mountains, hiking, mountaineering, trail-running and the outdoors in general.

Development of Thin-Gap GEM-{\mu}RWELL Hybrid Detectors
Kondo Gnanvo, Xinzhan Bai, Brian Kross, Minh Dao, Seung Joon Lee, Nilanga Liyanage, Huong Nguyen, Matt Posik, Nikolai Smirnov, Sourav Tarafdar, Andrew Weisenberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17735

Development of Thin-Gap GEM-μRWELL Hybrid Detectors
Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are used for tracking in High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics because of their large area, excellent spatial resolution capabilities and low cost. However, for high energy charged particles impacting at a large angle with respect to the axis perpendicular to detector plane, the spatial resolution degrades significantly because of the long trail of ionization charges produced in clusters all along the track in the drift region of the detector. The long …

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

Just a little PSA to any trail bikers in the UK who find the https://stegra.io app interesting...
Many of the byways that they are highlighting on the map are actually illegal to ride - they are closed with a TRO. It seems Stegra didn’t take this into account at all 🤦‍♀️

Lessons from A Large Language Model-based Outdoor Trail Recommendation Chatbot with Retrieval Augmented Generation
Julia Ann Mathew, Suining He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05652 …

Lessons from A Large Language Model-based Outdoor Trail Recommendation Chatbot with Retrieval Augmented Generation
The increasing popularity of outdoor recreational activities (such as hiking and biking) has boosted the demand for a conversational AI system to provide informative and personalized suggestion on outdoor trails. Challenges arise in response to (1) how to provide accurate outdoor trail information via conversational AI; and (2) how to enable usable and efficient recommendation services. To address above, this paper discusses the preliminary and practical lessons learned from developing Judy, an…

Beyond Copenhagen: Following the Trail of Decoherence in Feynman's Light Microscope
Brian C. Odom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13385 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Beyond Copenhagen: Following the Trail of Decoherence in Feynman's Light Microscope
Feynman's light microscope invites us to reconsider what we thought we knew about quantum reality. Rather than invoking wavefunction collapse to predict the loss of fringes in a monitored interferometer, Feynman analyzes the problem in terms of a disturbance. This approach raises the question of whether the classical world, including its localized particles and definite measurement outcomes, might emerge as the universe evolves smoothly according to ß. Treating the particle and its environment…

A selection of pictures from yesterday
#iceland #reykjavik

Planning to bike to work tomorrow but the part of the Oak Leaf Trail I normally ride on to avoid street traffic is probably underwater along the Menomonee River...

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-04087120/#d…

I don't think I posted any running photos from the Thom B Trail Runs this May 17th in Hammond Hill State Forest; here's one of the faster runners -- this time I didn't get hypothermia or sunburn or anything
#photo #photography

Nie ma doskonałej aplikacji do pogody…
A, czekajcie — przecież jest #TrailSense. A co w niej takiego super? Otóż, działa w 100% offline. Wykorzystuje dane z barometru oraz chmur. Tych właściwych chmur.
Czy jest dokładna? Oczywiście, że nie. Ale jeżeli mam wybierać między niedokładną aplikacją, która jest nudna i bierze dane z Internetu, a niedokładną aplikacją, która jest zajefajna i s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Pictish Trail:
🎵 Hold It
#PictishTrail
https://pictishtrail.bandcamp.com/track/hold-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AWaJSRGAN2DLkDACqS5PX

#ImprecRecords has a new #WeirdAl t-shirt with an #Accordion and the cryptic reference "Satan eats Cheese-Whiz" (Taken from a back-masked message on Al's song "Nature Trail To…

Satan Eats Cheese Whiz - T Shirt

NYTimes: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs & Family Drama:
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous & his drug use was more intense than previously known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Love this. https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/10/husband-and-wife-clean-los-gatos-creek-trail-on-daily-walks/?share=uspih0dmdcg1mwd0tpn2

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

TOMD: A Trail-based Off-road Multimodal Dataset for Traversable Pathway Segmentation under Challenging Illumination Conditions
Yixin Sun, Li Li, Wenke E, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei, Toby P. Breckon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21630

TOMD: A Trail-based Off-road Multimodal Dataset for Traversable Pathway Segmentation under Challenging Illumination Conditions
Detecting traversable pathways in unstructured outdoor environments remains a significant challenge for autonomous robots, especially in critical applications such as wide-area search and rescue, as well as incident management scenarios like forest fires. Existing datasets and models primarily target urban settings or wide, vehicle-traversable off-road tracks, leaving a substantial gap in addressing the complexity of narrow, trail-like off-road scenarios. To address this, we introduce the Trail…

So, this is why I love this place so much:
Person A makes a funny and interesting observation:
https://social.ds106.us/@johnjohnston/114665513635758197
@…

John Johnston (@johnjohnston@social.ds106.us)
Attached: 1 image I met this snail this morning. I am wondering why its trail is ‘dotted’? Was it hopping;-)

Tiedot nykyihmisten heikentyneestä fyysisistä kyvyistä ovat huolestuttavia.
Onneksi kansallispuistoissa on myös hyvin matalan suorituskyvyn vaellusreittejä.
#kansallispuistot

I saw this on my way home from Mequon yesterday, along the oakleaf trail. There used to be a very makeshift skatepark here. I was slightly curious what they were building. It looks like it might be a more formal skatepark?
#BrownDeer #SkatePark

"Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming #Nature

Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught
Progress on nature-positive farming – but habitats still trail big-ticket technology

I think I have dysentery

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ride:
🎵 Vapour Trail
#Ride
https://rideox4.bandcamp.com/track/vapour-trail
https://open.spotify.com/track/58AWfmYbSeMywgJtXkey7Q

Did I go to Świebodzice, and take an easy trail? Perhaps.
Did I suffer from acrophobia all the time? Definitely.

Gruden’s feud with the NFL won’t die https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/aug/17/grudens-feud-with-the-nfl-wont-die/

Go woke or go broke https://flipboard.com/@indiewire/trailers-i0lskg6jz/-/a-04Zj1YO_THi4gbLTjZrQjw:a:1805834852-/0

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MusicPlaylist
Pictish Trail:
🎵 After Life
#PictishTrail
https://pictishtrail.bandcamp.com/track/after-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/50hOjSWwaKf6pDcZCYKhho

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
Ben Bals, Sebastiaan van Krieken, Solon P. Pissis, Leen Stougie, Hilde Verbeek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03433 https:…

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
The reduction of the fragment assembly problem to (variations of) the classical Eulerian trail problem [Pevzner et al., PNAS 2001] has led to remarkable progress in genome assembly. This reduction employs the notion of de Bruijn graph $G=(V,E)$ of order $k$ over an alphabet $Σ$. A single Eulerian trail in $G$ represents a candidate genome reconstruction. Bernardini et al. have also introduced the complementary idea in data privacy [ALENEX 2020] based on $z$-anonymity. The pressing question i…

A cool thing about the Seattle Frontrunners group runs is that this barred owl (Strix varia) is not even the first owl I've seen this close on a run. (This one was along the ravine trail in Ravenna Park this morning.)
#naturalist #wildlife

Hey guys, let your path be always be filled with sunshine and a great view ahead.
Enjoy your weekend, stay safe, healthy and happy. Block the hate and be friendly to a random person. Often it's just a smile, a "good morning" that's a welcome surprise to someone.
#photography #landscape

Clever wife. Knows exactly when to hand me the backpack. 😰
(you can't tell but that is an uphill trail, just turned uphill after I got the backpack)
#photography #amateur #Germany #Deutschland #Kelheim #hiking #health

Trump and Bobby Brainworm are galloping down the trail toward Soviet-style repression of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the_Soviet_Union

"En 2011, l’OMS accueille une nouvelle maladie dans son catalogue: la bigorexie. Initialement réservée aux adeptes des salles de musculation, le terme décrit désormais l’addiction au sport."
#santé #trail

US gov vehicle with no agency ID on cap crrscent trail north of Fletchers boathouse. white pickup. drove away when I stopped & took out camera

Do not let the mounties go looking for me, when the time comes. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-lwijrlI1Rr2dlpM0oTqmkQ:a:107108217-/0

B.C. hiker in his 70s rescued after four days alone in remote wilderness
Prince George Search and Rescue (PGSAR) have safely located a man in his late 70s who became lost while hiking the Great Divide Trail. PGSAR says the …

Just thought about this hike that I did quite a while a go. I saw this tree standing aside the trail and I tried if it would make a good photo.
And actually I planned to go back there - which I still didn't!
Anyways. Just wanted to share it with you 🙂
#photography #trees

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Decomposing a signed graph into rooted circuits
We prove a precise min-max theorem for the following problem. Let $G$ be an Eulerian graph with a specified set of edges $S \subseteq E(G)$, and let $b$ be a vertex of $G$. Then what is the maximum integer $k$ so that the edge-set of $G$ can be partitioned into $k$ non-zero $b$-trails? That is, each trail must begin and end at $b$ and contain an odd number of edges from~$S$. This theorem is motivated by a connection to vertex-minors and yields two conjectures of Máčajová and Škoviera as cor…

TRAIL: Joint Inference and Refinement of Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models
Xinkui Zhao, Haode Li, Yifan Zhang, Guanjie Cheng, Yueshen Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04474

TRAIL: Joint Inference and Refinement of Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked powerful reasoning and decision-making capabilities. However, their inherent dependence on static parametric memory fundamentally limits their adaptability, factual accuracy, and interpretability in knowledge-intensive scenarios. Knowledge graphs (KGs), as structured repositories of explicit relational knowledge, offer a promising approach for augmenting LLMs with external, interpretable memory. Nevertheless, most existing methods th…

Holy Crap! I biked to work... I took the (borrowed) ebike and it took 24 minutes. (I had estimated 35-40.) My route was about 7 miles. (The bike said 7, my phone said 6.7.)
This drive usually takes about 15 minutes by car. I probably spent at least a few minutes waiting at stoplights at the busier streets but taking the Oak Leaf Trail was smooth as hell.
#biking

This is the one part of the Oakleaf trail that worries me the most

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

I took this #photo when I thought that I'd be almost there. - Because I had mostly looked about the elevation. But as you might see on the photo, the way flattens a bit towards the summit.
Well, it was a great trail - it just took longer then I assumed.
Some more context and a video are on my blog:

Spirit of the West, "Darkhouse", *1988*:
> We're watching the right hand
> Not watching the left hand
> Soon we'll be watching the world turn
> With no hands at all
> We're really amazing
> This trail we are blazing
> Burning the bridge between our rise and fall....
> We used to dig! lift! heave!
> Now "we" has turned to "it"
> Programs! computes!
> But hardly u…

This #photo is pretty soon after the first photo that I posted. I was on the way up and turned around to see the nice little meadow that I just crossed.
The #trail winding through the meadow with the trees around and the

Making my way back to the base camp after Forest Frolic 2025 in the James Kennedy State Forest through a mostly flat and ferny forest
#photo #photography #forests

And here are the last two #photos from my bike&hike recently. the one shows one of the (in my point of view) interesting geological parts of the hike. And in the second I tried to get some more foreground into the photo
I hope you enjoy the view as much as I enjoyed the hike up there 🙂
And I wonder if we could see the home area of @…

Driving a golf cart on the oakleaf trail seems a bit wrong.

As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency,
he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according topeople familiar with his activities.
Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use.
He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.
He to…

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Group of three runners in heavy rain at the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest -- this was on a plateau at the top of a very steep hill
#running #sports #photo

Good morning everyone! We are starting into our second week of vacation. We'll be seeing some friends.
Meanwhile, enjoy this photo from a bike and hike we did last year.
#hiking #wandern #mountains

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster
M. Sun, H. Le, B. Epinat, A. Boselli, R. Luo, K. Hosogi, N. Pichette, W. Forman, C. Sarazin, M. Fossati, H. Chen, E. Sarpa, J. Braine, J. C. Cuillandre, S. Gwyn, G. Hensler, S. Martocchia, B. Vollmer

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster
Context. Galaxies fly inside galaxy clusters and ram pressure by the ICM can remove a large amount of the ISM from the galaxy, and deposit the gas in the ICM. The ISM decoupled from the host galaxy leaves a long trail following the moving galaxy. Such long trails track the galaxy motion and can be detected with sensitive data in Halpha. Aims. We study the Halpha tail trailing NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster. Methods. The initial discovery was made with the deep Halpha imaging data with CFHT, …

I took this photo pretty close after the last that I posted. I just turned around to see what's behind me. I assumed just the bushes and the trail.
But obviously I was high enough that I already got some nice view into the distance.
If you're wondering why it's so flat in the distance: I am directly at the northern end of the #alps. To the south, there are

Heute doch noch kurz vor Sonnenuntergang mit'm #Brompton #GLine #rausgeschafft für 11.1km #mdRddG in Richtun…

A new trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest near where I live
#photo #photography #caroline #forest

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

There is no perfect #weather app…
Oh wait, there's #TrailSense. And you know what's so great about it? It is 100% offline. Like, it uses the barometer sensor and cloud data. Like, the right kind of clouds.
Is it accurate? Obviously not. But given the choice of non-cool online weather predictions, and totally cool offline weather predictions… Also, now I have an excuse to photograph clouds to feed it data, so maybe I'll finally learn to recognize them.
It also has lots of other useful functions — like a compass, sunrise/sunset times, and lots more. And it's on #FDroid.
#Android

Tummle mich am #Ironcurtaintrail und frage mich, wann wir den #Merz/#Dobrindt Trail einweihen können, als Erinnerung an diese dunklen, rechtspopulistischen Jahre.
#radreisen

This was one of the WOW moments during my hike recently. Until then i was walking through the woods. But this meadow greeted me with sunshine, flowers and the trail leading through it.
I took off my rucksack and tried to capture my first some photos.
The blog with more potos and a video: https://www.

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#mountains and #LenticularClouds Oc…

Mountain biker I caught on the trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #portrait #sports

Now watching a #hiking documentary about the Pacific crest trail
#pct

New peertube video from a recent bike and hike. I didn't plan to record until I was quite into the trail.
I hope you enjoy some views with me.
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/qYzd2SGAcyjF7DnHSyxjz7

Ich habe mir überlegt, ob ich im Sommer und für längere Strecken dem #Lurchi einen Satz #Vittoria #Mezcal XC Trail 29x2.60 #Reifen

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

Walking back through the ferns after the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest
#ferns #plants #forests #forestfrolic