Northwest Trails

The conversion of the Switchbacks.com site to ASP.net is nearly complete (I’m just tidying up a few odds and ends) and in the overhaul I’ve added a couple of new pages: Links Page Often I’m asked about other mapping projects around the country or world similar to the Northwest Trails Project, so I thought I’d [...]

You may have noticed that this blog and the Switchbacks.com forums have been down for the last couple of days.  I learned (the hard way) that the “Publish Web Site” feature of Visual Studio acts like a sync and removes folders and files on the site that are not present on the local computer.  Since [...]

This morning I was making an update to the Switchbacks.com forum software and tweaking some settings, and the next thing you know – BAM!  No database.  Attempts to recover failed, and so I was left to restore an old backup – which unfortunately was 4 months old.   So, in short, the forums are back [...]

For those of you who have gotten sick looking at my Geocaching.com avatar plastered all over the site, you can now rejoice – I’ve finished the design and implementation of a true Switchbacks.com logo: I’m also using this change as a kick-off point for a redesign of the site.  There is still much to do, [...]

Switchbacks.com now has a new feature – a user forum!  Hopefully this will be a useful place to discuss maps, GPS mapsets, and everything else.  Please feel free to come look around and get started.  The place is a little bare right now, but will hopefully liven up shortly!

Northwest Trails, the Switchbacks.com blog, is now in a new location at http://www.switchbacks.com/blog!  You may want to change any shortcuts or links that you have pointing to the old site. All previous posts and comments have been migrated over.  The RSS feed has also been migrated, so if you subscribed to the blog you shouldn’t [...]

It appears that Switchbacks.com was successfully moved to the new web host with no downtime.  Please let me know if you run into any issues that I may have missed.  Thanks!

The process of transferring Switchbacks.com to the new web host is underway.  Hopefully there will be minimal downtime.  I’ll post back here when the process is complete.