The Google Earth - QGIS - Google Earth loop for trail design can be time consuming and may not find the ideal route. Draw a route, export it, calculate grades based on LiDAR elevations, find out half the segments are too steep, go back, redraw, re-export. Repeat.

Arcata has a climate that confuses people. It doesn’t snow, it rarely gets hot, and January looks about the same as July on a thermometer. The precipitation is a different story. Nearly all of it falls between October and April, and the summers are dry enough to make you forget it rains at all.

The world is insane and my prescription for making it less insane is goats. Here’s a map showing where one might go to surround themselves with goats. There are 34 counties in the US with more goats than people.