Month: May 2012

Hiking Clubs – Some advantages

One of the best method by which you can get into hiking vacation is to join a social club, where there will be several activities, by which you can get lot of benefits from the experience of other people who have gone for it.

Your friends and other members will help you in learning lot of things .They can give information about the areas that you can locally find and deliver you with several noteworthy points. Even you will get friends of similar mental wavelength who are adventurous to join you for your hiking vacation.

Though you can see different types of people with distinct characteristics, some will be quite aggressive while others will be lazy and afraid of it, but still you will get some of them who will have similar interests as you. Choose a club which has more young members, so as to match your frequency.

All around the America you can see about a few clubs who will arrange hiking vacation

Fairbanks Area Hiking Club
This is an associate which is situated in the interior region of Alaska and the residents found over here use to enjoy the crevices of beautiful Alaska. They research through these areas by wearing snowshoe, ski, bare foot or wearing boots .These journey will take you from Denali National park throughout to the Arctic National Wildlife refuge (ANWG) as well as through the White Mountains which is found along the rivers of the Tanoan and Chena and many similar places which are supposed to be dream like.

Alabama Hiking Trail Society
This is the prominent hiking club in the state of Alabama practiced to promote, save, develop, maintain and support a comprehensive track system covering the entire state. If you love hiking and if you are near and around Alabama, you can go from Huntsville to Mobile with the group of Alabama Hiking Trail society.

One of the benefits of becoming in this group is that these clubs have all the activities and you can take part and its brought under the Group liability Insurance policy.

Off the Beaten Trail
This have both social and hiking club. You can participate in which ever you want .It was first created by the Lorie and Ward who together began running this club in summer 2002 .Now the club has become so popular that over 300 members have joined this club. This hiking group mainly involves people who are single and those who inhabit the metropolitan area of AZ and phoenix. You can even choose the events that you want to take part and can avoid those that you don’t wish.

Desert Trails Hiking Club
The Desert Trail hiking club is well known and they conduct different types of hiking and you can choose whichever you want. There is one hiking which is easy, one which is moderate and one which is highly stressful and strenuous hikes. You can enroll yourself to go for the Coachella valley hike and also beyond the valley and enjoy the comradeship and friendliness.

Trailblazers Hiking Club
The outdoor activities of the social come hiking club Trailblazers in the Mountain regions of eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas of the west side in Ouachita and Ozarks. The hiking club offers lot of variety of hiking like short, long, difficult and relaxed one and it will be held in different schedules. These hikes are scheduled nearly every weekend from autumn to spring .You can go through the events section in the website online in order to choose the event that you would like to select and match your likes.

How To Track An Android Phone – 2 Apps You Need To Know About

Smartphones are truly fantastic and revolutionary devices. One downside they do have is that they’re small and expensive. That means they’re easy to lose and not something you want to have to replace very often.

Fortunately, there are several Android phone tracker apps designed to help you get your spiffy Droid back in your hands.

Here are the two I recommend. The first is the one you install if you still have your phone in your possession and are simply planning ahead just in case you lose your phone and the second is the app you’ll need to get if the phone has already been lost as it can be installed and activated remotely.

1) Where’s My Droid

While the basic version of this app is free, it does have a pro version that allows you to remotely lock and wipe your phone as well as allow you to track your phone with a landline phone for $4. It’s not a bad deal by any means but the basics do plenty if you want to do this on the cheap.

Where’s My Droid will do two very important tasks for you. The first is the one I use
it for most of the time. You can send a text message to your phone (keep in mind you can send text messages for free through Gmail so you don’t even need a phone to do this) that will turn up the volume on your phone even if the phone is on vibrate or silent.

That means if your phone is floating around your house or apartment but you’re just not sure where, you just send a text message to your phone and your ringer will be going off at full volume for the next couple minutes so you can go find it. Trust me, this really comes in handy for when your phone has fallen between the couch cushions or some similar place.

The second task is one you probably won’t need to use very often at all but when you do, you’ll be glad it’s on your phone. You can send a text message (again, this is a specially coded message that you pick – kind of like a password) to your phone and your phone will reply back with its location on Google Maps. You can click on the map and zoom into see right where your phone is and it’s accurate to roughly 20 feet so you can get a really good idea of where the phone really is.

2) Plan B

This app is developed by the same people who developed the security suite for Android – Lookout Mobile. Like I mentioned above, this app is meant to be installed after the phone is already missing and there’s no need to install this one ahead of time as it’s singular purpose in life is to be remotely installed, activated, and send you the location of the phone (for security purposes they send location info to your Gmail account).

Once installed, you can use a friend’s phone to send a text with the word “locate” and it will reply with it’s location.

Yes, there are other specialized apps out there for real time tracking or even apps for keeping track of your kids but I’ll let you explore those other apps on your own if you need them. For most people, the two apps I listed above will be more than enough to help you track down your phone if you ever lose it.
In fact, I’m hoping that someday I can get an app like this for my wallet, keys, and shoes – those all seem to go missing on a regular basis as well.