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Jan 21 2011

Explorer’s Club Dinner Speech

Published by neal under Fun

I’m speaking tonight at the Explorer’s Club dinner about Adam’s and my swim across the English Channel. Should be a fun dinner. I think it’s open the public. http://www.diggles.com/ec 6-9PM University Club of San Francisco

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Sep 23 2010

Suunto X10 Review

Published by adam under Fun,Sponsor,Training

I took the new Suunto X10 on a trip to Portalón, Costa Rica. The trip was one one-part real estate recon and one-part adventure travel. The watch was useful for both. For the adventure travel part of the trip, I traveled on horseback through the rain forest near Manuel Antonio National Park. It was the perfect [...]

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Mar 12 2009

Suunto X10 In The Wild

Published by neal under Fun

Lately Adam and I have been kind of obsessing over the new X10 GPS watch. Here is another example from an X10 fan site of what we can do with this watch. Below see how Suunto Ambassador Manuelo Bustelo mashed-up the X10 and Google Earth to track and share his first day of Costa Rica’s [...]

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Mar 04 2009

Awesome Video from Suunto

Published by adam under Fun,Sponsor

Hello from Costa Rica! I’m here stresstesting Suunto’s new GPS Watch, the X10. I’ll blog about it in a few days and show you the maps it produces with Google Earth. Meantime, enjoy this awesome video from Suunto!

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Dec 31 2008

10DL Enjoys Our Second New Years

Published by neal under Fun

Adam and I came up with the 10 Degrees Latitude idea in the Fall of 2007, which makes this New Years our second New Years. We are very excited about how far 10DL has come so far: 1 successful expedition done, 1 expedition planned, many more to come! Below is are a couple of fun [...]

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Nov 13 2008

Swimming across the Atlantic Ocean

Published by neal under Fun

In July Adam and I swam the 20-mile English Channel. Next August we plan to lead the 10DL Team to swim 10-miles from San Quentin to Alcatraz. We feel these are pretty burly swims. But check out this burly lady.  Jennifer Figge, a 56-year-old endurance athlete from Aspen, Colorado, plans to swim 2,100 miles across the [...]

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