My chain saw needed some gas but I didn’t have any so I went to Guerneville and got some gas for my saw and some for my weed mower.
I filed the chainsaw teeth and fueled and oiled the saw and loaded the tools I would need on the quad runner.
Clearing the old trail
Here’s the quad at the start of the trail at the bottom. Since I have a chainsaw, this will be the first time the quad runner has been on this trail as there are logs across the trail that need to be cut and removed to get by.
I started with these logs, just a couple of cuts and then move them off the trail and move on.
Some places were pretty well cleared by now.
I had to remove this one so I could get by but otherwise the trail was in good shape on this part.
Good place to work
One of the places I stopped to do some work, like throwing more sticks off the road as there were more sticks on the road than I thought.
Lots of sticks on the trail
Sticks like these, lots of them. I had to remove a bunch of them all the way up even though I’d already worked on removing a lot of them. I think I now have most of them removed.
Almost ran off the trail
I was only fifty feet from the top of the trail when I ran off the trail, well almost. I had to man handle the quad back on the trail to keep it from going down on the right. Needless to say I did a bit of dirt moving in this spot so this doesn’t happen again.
Started back down the trail
I finally made it to the top of the trail. I zeroed the mile gauge on the quad to see how long the trail was and started back down the trail from this spot at the top.
This log was low and hard to get under so it got cut down and removed on the way down the trail.
I’d worked on this part of the trail on the way up so it was nice on the way down.
At the end of the trail
I checked the mile gauge on the quad and found it read .3 miles, a bit shorter than I thought it was, but long enough.
Lots of water
On the way headed back down to my house I went by our water tanks to check the water level. They were all full so I can do some more watering in my yard.
Good exercise
I sat down for a break when I got home to relax for a bit. When I tried to get up I could hardly move, but I worked on it and slowly things got moving again, although with a bit of pain. Such is older age and hard work, keeps me young or at least healthier.
One last thing
In the evening I puttered around the yard doing some watering and put some fertilizer on my young citrus plants and before I knew it it was getting dark.
Hi Bob,
My husband and I have been following your blog since the fire and have enjoyed all the great photos of your daily adventures. My grandparents retired up here in the early 60’s so I have come to Guerneville my whole life. We are vacationing here this week and looking for new trails to hike with Armstrong closed. Are the trails you are clearing on your land, national forest or open to public if you know how to get to them? Thank you for showing us a whole other side of life in this area.
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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.
Hi Bob,
My husband and I have been following your blog since the fire and have enjoyed all the great photos of your daily adventures. My grandparents retired up here in the early 60’s so I have come to Guerneville my whole life. We are vacationing here this week and looking for new trails to hike with Armstrong closed. Are the trails you are clearing on your land, national forest or open to public if you know how to get to them? Thank you for showing us a whole other side of life in this area.