Tuesday September 29, 2020 Stillwater Mountains, Nevada
Desert exploring
Once we got it going this morning we broke camp around 11 as we are trying to take it easy and not rush around like we did in the olden days.
We stopped here on the way to Fallon to get a cell lock where I could post my blog and Marty could call his wife.
Gassed up
We drove on in to town to top off our gas tanks for the next part of the trip. Then we got back on highway 50 and headed east for a bit looking for our turn off at a place called Salt Wells.
Where’s the road
We made it to Salt Wells but couldn’t find the left turn off road we needed so drove on past it and eventually had to turn around and hunt for the road on the way back and finally found the dirt road turn off we needed to head up to the Stillwater Mountain Range.
We drove out this road that goes through the Diamond Valley.
And by this old corral, a place where they work the cattle.
We had to go through this wire gate, the only gate we’ve seen so far.
What’s that
I saw something out off the road so went over to have a look. It appears to be a spent green smoke grenade.
The first part of the road was fairly rough and rocky but then it changed to sandy which was much easier going.
Exploring
Most of the time we just barely knew where we were going so we stopped and checked the maps a lot, but still most of the time we weren’t real sure where we were but hey that’s exploring.
Lunch
We stopped here in the middle of the road for lunch and to check the maps. There weren’t many places to pull off the road in this area and we didn’t see another sole all day.
Need an early camp spot
After lunch we decided to only go a short ways farther just into the hills ahead and find a camp spot for the day.
We did find a camp spot in this little pass over the hills, we found this little turn out and camped.
After resting a bit we started to look around a bit to see what was around us. There was a little black looking hole across the hill from us we thought might a be a mine tunnel but didn’t plan to check it out.
Checking out the black hole
But later I was out wondering around and decided that black hole would be easy to get to so I started working my way to it.
When I got there I was surprised to find that the black hole was only about two feet in diameter so no mine tunnel there.
This was looking back to our camp spot from the dark spot as I started heading back to it.
Sunset
I made it back to camp where we discussed tomorrows plans a bit and just rested up until the sun went down.
Tomorrow we’ll continued on this road and see where it takes us. We’d like to get up to some higher mountains if we can and if we take the right roads. The maps we have for this area aren’t too good so we could end up anywhere.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
