<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2010935891993128885.post-2598500035310511834</id><published>2008-09-14T19:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:09:22.888-07:00</updated><title type='text'>San Antonio Rancho PG&amp;E trail on Path Tracker</title><content type='html'>We don't know how to do things in moderation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jean mentioned that we should go for a hike this weekend and of course, I suggested it that we try the PG&amp;amp;E trail in the popular San Antonio Rancho Open Preserve.&amp;nbsp; We did this trail about 3 years ago with a friend's dad.&amp;nbsp; Yes, a father had to take us and we almost couldn't keep up with his crew of other older parents.&amp;nbsp; Back then we were just a little more in shape and that was quite difficult already.&amp;nbsp; Fast forward 3 years, add a few pounds (for me), and we naively thought, "hey, what the heck, let's do this again"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To our surprise we actually did the whole 6+ mile loop in about 3 hours.&amp;nbsp; But we were huffing and puffing and aching that afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashan/2855450286/" title="Rancho San Antonio - PG&amp;amp;E trail by ThomasHan, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/2855450286_57f1d204f0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Rancho San Antonio - PG&amp;amp;E trail" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashan/2854616447/" title="Rancho San Antonio - PG&amp;amp;E trail by ThomasHan, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2854616447_1e76983dc7_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Rancho San Antonio - PG&amp;amp;E trail" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On a side note, one of our favorite iPhone applications is "Path Tracks".&amp;nbsp; As you can see below, it sometimes forget to drop breadcrumbs and towards the end, it got as tired as we did and decided to just shut down for the day.&amp;nbsp; It's really easy to use, you start it on the iPhone and as you walk, it'll leave points where you can then later save it up to pathtracks.com for a pretty picture like below. Check out the &lt;a href="http://pathtracks.com/users/3214/paths/25985-san-antonio-rancho-pg-e-trail?show_points=1"&gt;one we saved on Saturday&lt;/a&gt; and also screenshot below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nrugNyt_eLE/SM6P-VtZTNI/AAAAAAAACk0/IkWjQWx_Eh0/s1600-h/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nrugNyt_eLE/SM6P-VtZTNI/AAAAAAAACk0/x8LyhTpFglU/s400-R/Picture+1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2010935891993128885-2598500035310511834?l=www.thomashan.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.thomashan.com/feeds/2598500035310511834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2010935891993128885&amp;postID=2598500035310511834&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2010935891993128885/posts/default/2598500035310511834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2010935891993128885/posts/default/2598500035310511834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.thomashan.com/2008/09/san-antonio-rancho-pg-trail-on-path.html' title='San Antonio Rancho PG&amp;E trail on Path Tracker'/><author><name>ThomasHan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08899077495496583051</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13345545354846166209'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nrugNyt_eLE/SM6P-VtZTNI/AAAAAAAACk0/x8LyhTpFglU/s72-Rc/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry>