This site is about long distance trails--things that take weeks or months to complete, not stuff like your Old Rag for which every listed hike is in day-hike range. I don't see trail distances on your second link but once again it appears to be day-hiking.
Considering the US ones on that list--there are people that have managed to do all three in one year, albeit with some flip-flopping. There are more of them than there are moonwalkers.....still living.
It's not about standards, it's about off topic. The trails you are referring to are far enough from me I know nothing of them, they very well might be good trails. They aren't long distance trails, though.
I watched a lot of old Time Team episodes lately and this looks like more of the same from the era. Really nice, complex looking work but overall what can be expected for the time period. Cool that it's so well preserved though and hasn't suffered from having a plow or seismic event turn it into a puzzle.
Classics right there! We've got a long linage of this kinda stuff now from browser resets to full stylesheets to well specified content just for testing any of the above on. I love it! Simple. Consistent. And now more powerful than ever with the help of variables.
Might be fun to take all the w3 core styles rebuild them with modern CSS features. Maybe add some HTML5 elements to the test docs as well.
Who leaves a mouse on a glue trap until it dies? That's messed up! I can hear when a mouse is on those things and at that point I carry the frightened mouse outside, pour a cap full of vegetable oil around it's feet and it frees itself, running off into the yard, then the trap goes in the trash. Heinously cruel? Only if you're a lazy shit.
First off, they are sold to glue a mouse, then toss the whole thing, mouse and all. They don't market it as a catch-and-release.
And because they don't only get stuck by their feet, like their face, for example. If you're only planning on catch-and-release, then use a trap made for that. How silly do you have to be to glue them to a piece of paper, just to intend to un-glue them later?? That alone is cruel.
They don't get gore in my house like a snap trap does yet fit in the same places where a catch-and-release trap would not. The mouse still lives and I get maybe two of them a year, in the fall as the temps cool. I really don't think it's a big deal.
Oh my god I wish I had known you could do that, [warning, don't read if you don't want to hear a horrible story about a mouse] I put down a glue trap to get what I thought were cockroaches but came to find a mouse stuck in it. Horrified, I tried to get it loose with a stick, but the glue was so strong I accidentally broke its legs, the poor thing kept trying to pull them free... I immediately removed all the glue traps and got live catch traps, and caught something like 6 mice before I gave in and notified the landlord. They used poison, then sealed up possible entry points. I wish there was some way to tell the mice it's not safe to be in people's homes, I don't want them to suffer
A landlord brought glue traps once upon complaints of a rat.
After the rat was caught, I had read about how they slowly suffocate over days, often chewing off their own limbs in a largely futile attempt to escape.
I ended up bludgeoning the rat. I still remember the high pitched scream it made upon receiving the first blow. It only lasted about a minute but it was a pretty fucked up experience, and that was going the merciful route.
My dad's method for getting rid of mice was one solid blow from a 2 quart sauce pan. I think I was 4 when I first saw that. It's an ugly thing to take a life, but at least it was quick.
If you are looking for a more ‘humane’ method for mice and rats check out the Automatic Trap. As far as I can tell it’s near instant and doesn’t suffer from the prolonged suffering issues of glue, poison, and flip traps.
Glue traps are practical (though cruel) if you have property that you visit infrequently so changing out bait on snap traps isn't an option. If that isn't the case there are humane options that are also effective. I used the "Mice Cube" live traps off Amazon which worked well and don't pose a risk to pets or wild predators. Live traps do need to be checked frequently so the animal won't die horribly.
Definitely don't use poison. It's not painful for the rodents, but it makes its way up into the food chain. Mountain Lion P47 in CA is alleged to have died from rat poison ingestion.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of distress/trauma involved -- in fact, if you watch to about 2:54, there's a rodent that apparently successfully avoids the trapdoor action and then more or less appears to think to itself "hey, what's down here, maybe I'll join the party."
Yeah this is a great way to tackle it. Image and branding comes along for the ride. Even if it's your desire - the client's desire is typically going to be functionality, security, usability, accessibility, etc. All of which are a means to an end for a lone wolf designer/engineer. Listen and learn from them about their pain points before promoting your own skills or favorite parts of the industry.
"Listen and learn from them about their pain points" goes straight to the heart of it. An ugly website might be a normal nothing to them. But one of your related skills might be all they've ever wanted, and you'll only ever know by looking at what they want to solve (versus what you want to pitch to them).
The author actually loads 10x that much CSS (546 bytes) into the example page! [1]
Granted that is still not much but here I've augmented the 546 byte example to render nearly the same results with only 155 bytes. [2]
I've removed rem units as it's easier for all to understand without them. Pixel units scale just fine across the browsers available these days so there's no need for the mental hurdles and explained calculations. I've left them in the source HTML all the same for the sake of testing. The real feature making sites look good across a ever widening array of pixel densities today is this meta tag that was also used in the example HTML: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> [3]
Setting a font-family generically on the body tag gives the shortest path to consistent, doesn't-look-like-times-new-roman, font styling possible.
I left the unmentioned line-height in because it's a good default. It adds a little basic spacing between wrapping lines of text.
Styling elements that are children of the article to only have bottom margins gives consistent spacing to all content, and since top margins collapse [4] we can avoid dealing with them all together.
Haha yes, I mean 58 bytes for layout, not layout + styling.
Anyways, what you've written here is good, and definitely encompasses some things I thought about. Two notes for you:
1. I explicitly preferred Arial and Helvetica over the generic sans-serif is because I found some other popular web safe fonts didn't look nearly as good, for example, Open Sans, mainly due to the large x-height.
2. I don't think rem incurs much cognitive overhead over px, and the main reason is that it scales with the user-adjustable font size. Try changing your browser's font size from 16 to say, 20. You'll notice that with px max-width, # chars per line will decrease a lot, affecting readability. in contrast, rem max-width will scale nicely.
Ice age trail - https://www.iceagetrail.org
Superior hiking trail - https://superiorhiking.org/
John Muir trail - https://www.johnmuirtrail.org/
Long trail - https://www.greenmountainclub.org/the-long-trail/
Pacific Crest trail - https://www.pcta.org/
Hayduke trail - http://www.hayduketrail.org/
Arizona trail - https://aztrail.org/