I got up a bit late today and when I did I saw Barry out in the front yard unloading his dirt bike so I got it going so I could join him.
Chilly out
It was about 45 degrees F. as we got ready to go and very chilly out. There was a dampness in the air. I decided to add another sweater before we left and borrowed some leather groves from Barry as I couldn’t find mine. I knew it was going to be a chilly ride and it was even chillier than I thought it was going to be. Burrrr.
I crashed
So we rode up into the hills and Barry takes a short cut so I followed him. As I went around a turn on a steep hill there was a two inch small tree hanging across the trailer where Barry had just gone though. He said it wasn’t there when he just went through. I hit it and veered to the right where there was a big tree I barely missed but by now I was going slow and lost the bike after just barely missing that tree and it was now on it’s side on a steep hill. I was able to hale Barry back as he was waiting just up ahead to see if I made it or not and came on back and volunteered to get the bike up and out for me which helped a lot. Did I mention it was cold out and we were both about frozen or at least felt like it.
I went down coming up the hill to Barry’s left onto this road and am back on the bike now and we will turn around and ride on up the road.
Top of the World
We rode around for about an bit freezing our butts off and made it to the Top of the World where we usually stop for a break, but not today as it’s cold and overcast so we didn’t even get off our bikes, well but did stop for a moment otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten this picture. Well I guess I did get off the bike to take the picture.
View from the Top
This was todays view from the Top of the World. It’s not raining but is supposed to in a day or so.
Oyster shrooms
We took off and rode around some more roads when Barry stopped for something he saw on the hill above the road so he got off his bike to check out some oyster mushrooms.
On inspection they were over the hill, too old.
Lost Ridge, we had enough
We still had more roads to ride on so we continued and stopped at this spot I call Lost Ridge and stopped for a bit. We were chilled through and both said we’d had enough for the day and would head towards home, but not a direct route going on several roads on the way.
Barry is loading up his bike. It was a good ride even though it was chilly out. The forest was nice and fresh from the recent rains.
Getting toasty
I went in the house and warmed up until I was nice and toasty.
Quad runner ride checking trails for damage
I still had time to do something constructive today so I changed into some warmer clothes and took the quad runner back up in the hills to check on how some trails were holding up after the last rains that I hadn’t had time to check out yet.
I rode on up this trail. The quad goes slower than the dirt bikes so the chill wasn’t so bad and it was later in the day too.
Most of the trail was in real good shape with no damage from the rains.
I knew the trail section just above here had a ditch jump it’s course so parked and walked up to put the ditch back where it was supposed to be.
Work area
I set my stuff down on this log for a break log. I find a chair is handy where ever I am. That log is in the ditch where the water is supposed to be flowing when it rains so I worked just above it to put the water back so it flows through here.
Getting dark
It took awhile and was just starting to get dark when I finished up and headed back to my quad runner parked here.
Even though it was getting dark it didn’t take long to get down the trail and back to my house.
Keep the chickens happy
The chickens were waiting so I let them out and sat around with them for a bit until they went in to roost for the night.
Chilly but still a nice day playing in the forest.
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.
