Friday September 27, 2024 Warner Mountains, Northeastern CA.
We woke at our camp site along the creek. Turns out that creek is the South Fork of the Pit River.
Crawfish
We checked out our traps and I had about a dozen. Marty’s trap was empty so he’s working on improving it for the next time. Seems they might of all been getting out of the trap, so he worked on making a better door.
Exploring
The plan today was to do some exploring of what they call the east Warner’s. We drove on up this road.
And on roads like this one. We are always looking for a new camp spot. We wanted one with a creek, but couldn’t find any in this area. A lot because we were on the mountain top meadow areas.
We explored for several hours, then turned back to explore on the way back.
Marty usually follows me so he doesn’t have to figure out where to go. See him in the mirror.
We went through this big valley they call Jess Valley, which looked like it was mostly cattle ranches.
Back to camp
We didn’t find any good camp spots with water so we made it back to the one we used last night as it was a real good one.
The Pit River from the bridge by our camp, looking up stream. I went for a walk up the left side for a ways.
I went under the bridge to get back to camp, just to the left past the bridge.
Camp is here from the bridge.
Crawdads
We put the traps out hopping to catch more of the little guys.
Another angle of our camp spot in the evening.
Plans
We’ll be doing some more exploring tomorrow, but this time we will go to what they call the west Warner’s.
We’ll be camping up there whether we find a creek or not as we’ll be moving in that direction for our travels.
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.
