I read the description in the trail guide: Prepare for weather extremes: heat, rain, wind, and snow! Instantly, I thought this would be a great place to take my Nomad on an outdoor adventure! Yes, here in the soggy Northwest we have access to one of the most active volcanos on the planet....Mt. St. Helens.

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Recently, I made a trip down to Lake Tahoe, CA to visit the beautiful Meeks Bay area. Along with my wife, I chose the Nomad and Co-Pilot software as a travel companion.

Since I was using the basic model of the Nomad, I added GPS capability by plugging in the Holux GR-271 GPS card. I was all set with my Nomad, GPS card and a pre-downloaded route for the trip.

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I performed a demonstration of the new TDS SOLO Forest software at the Winning Technologies in Forestry trade show recently. SOLO Forest is the GIS and mapping solution for forestry applications developed by Tripod Data Systems (TDS), a Trimble company.

At the show, we demonstrated the SOLO Forest software as part of a bundled real-time inventory management system, developed by one of our dealers. SOLO Forest is based on TDS SOLO Field mapping software, but with new capabilities specifically for forestry. These include: Grid Generation Tool—This tool allows the user to generate a grid of points to be sampled in a forest stand on their GPS-equipped handheld. The GPS will tell the user how to get to the point; once he’s there, a software interface will call up the timber inventory program so the user can enter measurements on the trees in that plot area. Once all the tree measurement data is collected, SOLO Forest calls up the next plot location on the grid to be sampled, with navigational tools to get the user there. It also marks

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