Yonder

Discover the outdoors. A new app now available on your iPhone. #YonderApp

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Great to be hearing David Tyler @Yonder describe mission and implementation of this powerful outdoor app. Grab it in the iTunes store.

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Sit down with ZEAL Ambassador Steve House to talk climbing, plans, goals and the unwavering drive to get out and #ExploreMore!

You’re a hard man to keep up with. Give us a quick run down of where you’ve found yourself over the last couple months?

The spring was spent climbing and...

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Photos: Eric Larsen

Ryan Waters and Eric Larsen recently returned from an epic journey to the North Pole, unassisted, marking Larsen’s third trip to the top of the world and Waters’ completion of the Adventurers Grand Slam, hitting both poles and the Seven Summits...

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By Chris Burkard

There are several factors when it comes to photographing the night sky, but the biggest factor is getting far enough away from big cities and all of the light pollution, to see a night sky that isn’t being washed out from all of the artificial light. You can go to...

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Image via Cool Hunting

There’s fewer and fewer places where you can escape technology. Coverage maps are getting more filled in. Wireless towers are behind every boulder and atop every vista. So maybe it’s time to embrace technology even as we escape into the wilderness.

Yonder is...

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App Store features are so freaking rad! Check us out on the front page of the App Store!  Download Yonder for free and start sharing all of your outdoor adventures!

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Stoked that Yonder is being Featured by Apple right next to some awesome apps! #YonderApp  

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Check out Justine demoing the all new Yonder 2.0. 

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We will be at this year's New England Bike-Walk Summit in Providence, RI! Learn more about this East Coast Greenway Alliance event: http://bit.ly/186bBkO 

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We’re on Yonder! What is Yonder? Think of it as a cross between Instagram, Foursquare, and Pinterest for outdoor enthusiasts. Yonder makes it easy to find great outdoor destinations, track your adventure with geo-tagged video and images, follow other users, and share experiences with the Yonder community and other social networks…

BLM will incorporate Yonder in our National Public Lands Day Social Media Meetup (Saturday, September 28, 2013) and volunteers are encouraged to share experiences on the app from various NPLD sites. Please share all of your outdoor experiences using the tag #mypubliclands, and follow @mypubliclands!

Learn more about Yonder at http://www.yonder.it 

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So excited to be working with BLM!   

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The BLM is hosting a National Public Lands Day social media meetup on Saturday, Sept. 29.  You’ll be out volunteering, won’t you?  Well, tweet messages and photos to @BLMNational using the hashtag #NPLD; follow us on Facebook and tag us at @BLMNational; tage your Tumblr posts with #NPLD and #Bureauoflandmanagement (no spaces); and instagram your photos to our new @mypubliclands using the hashtag #NPLD.  We’ll retweet, reblog, and like the best throughout the day!  Visit http://blm.gov/sqkd (or scan the QR code) for more.

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@kylerapoza & @sammer just got back from 2 weeks in Hawaii! Check them out on Yonder to see their amazing adventures.

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So I've been thinking about what I would write for my first post on our shiny new Yonder Tumblr.  For a while I thought I should write some dramatic manifesto professing our passion and commitment to the outdoor lifestyle (that’s coming)... then I thought I’d write a tech piece about some very exciting news regarding a future version of Yonder that’s been all iOS 7ified (that’s coming too)... Or maybe I would write a post about some of the inspiring conversations I’ve had with some Yonder users (@CityStrokes, @bagr, @jill, @CaptureShareRepeat, @AmandaMarkert... I’m looking at you!).  While all those are definitely coming, I thought I’d start by simply introducing myself.

I’m David Tyler (@david on Yonder).  I was that kid that was always running around outside, turning over rocks, climbing trees, riding my bike off dirt jumps I’d make myself.  I was born in the beautiful green mountains of Vermont where I lived in a small log cabin in a town called Pomfret, right next door to Woodstock (not that Woodstock).  When I was 6 my family moved across to country to a small suburb outside of Sacramento, California.  It was there that I grew up watching our small community turn into one of the fastest growing towns in the US... a bustling sprawl of tract homes, restaurants, and shopping malls.  It’s also the place where I met my beautiful wife (@michelle).  After graduating high school Michelle and I spent 10 years in San Diego where we both graduated from UCSD (her as a doctor and me... well I graduated).  As fate would have it, Michelle matched at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for her pediatric residency just across the Connecticut River from Vermont, in Lebanon, New Hampshire... this is a long-winded way of saying that after some 20 years, I was finally coming home.

While At Green Mountain Digital (our company name), I’ve had the opportunity to work on North America's leading digital field guides, Audubon Guides, design and launch a fun educational app called NatureTap, and bring a wildlife sightings community to market called NatureShare.  And while I absolutely love each one of these products I am head over heels for Yonder!  I guess that’s why they call me Chief Yonderer.

The kicker is that I’ve gotten to do all this with a team as wildly enthusiastic about the outdoors as I am.  And get this, our world headquarters... Woodstock, Vermont, is just 5 minutes from that log cabin I grew up in.  And our creative Director, @marie was my next door neighbor!

I hope this is the first of many posts you’ll hear from me and the Yonder crew. We can’t wait to share more about the stuff I mentioned at the beginning, about hikes we go on, about our dogs, our passions, and our excitement for discovering the outdoors.  We also can’t wait to hear from you.  Let us know what you like, what you don’t... tell us your own stories.  To us Yonder is so much more than an app... it’s a movement... It’s a community of people just like us who love the outdoors and we can’t wait to discover it with you, but I guess that’s getting into the manifesto thing

Talk to you again soon!

David Tyler

Chief Yonderer

Yonder: @david

Twitter: @djtvt

email: [email protected]

Download Yonder to your iPhone for free: http://bit.ly/YonderApp

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Yondering from the Plane

I was heading home from the Pacific Northwest on a red eye this past Sunday and I was having trouble sleeping (as one usually does on a red eye).  I was sitting up fumbling with my headphones when one of the flight attendants came by and told me if I looked out the window I would be able to see the Northern Lights.  She warned me it was not the best view, but as I have never seen them I instantly opened my shade and just stared at this amazing natural light show.  We were somewhere over Montana according the the flight map.  I stared out my window until I could not keep my eyes open anymore.  I couldn't grab a good photo so these photos from the National Parks Service will have to do. I hope I get to see the aurora borealis again while I am out Yondering!  -Justine

Photo 1: Aurora Borealis Over Savage Cabin Photo Courtesy of NPS / Jacob W. Frank

Photo 2: Aurora Sets the Trees Aflame Photo Courtesy NPS/Tim Rains

Photo 3: Toklat Aurora Borealis Photo Courtesy of NPS/Jacob W. Frank

• Green – oxygen, up to 150 miles in altitude • Red – oxygen, above 150 miles in altitude • Blue – nitrogen, up to 60 miles in altitude • Purple/violet – nitrogen, above 60 miles in altitude

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Show us your #YonderStance!

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What did you do this weekend? Photo by @djtvt from his trip to #Yellowstone.

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Discover the outdoors with Yonder a new app for your iPhone.