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Google also showed off a new backpack unit, nicknamed Trekker, that will allow for more images of remote, off-road places best reached on foot.
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Our plan was to take a six-day jaunt along the Har Ki Doon Trail, a 50-mile round-trip said to be ideally suited to the fair-weather trekker.
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The Trekker the backpack camera apparatus Google used to photograph its Grand Canyon collection, which debuted in February had yet to be invented when Fredinburg and friends set their sights on some summits.
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To capture even more images, Google announced today Street View Trekker, a portable technology pack with 360-degree camera, that fits into a backpack and be carried by users into remote and wilderness areas only accessible by foot.
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