As we left our camp on the side of Bearpaw Mountain we turned left to try to go around the mountain on another road than the one we were familiar with. I’d seen the road every time I’ve come in here, but I didn’t have a map of it, so hadn’t checked it out before, but I was pretty sure it would take us back to the main road.
We went up this road and climbed the mountain.
I spied some big old bones here so we stopped to check them out. They seemed to be bovine bones. Marty was interested in a skull, but it was gone.
We continued on around the Mountain.
There were some cattle in the area. They seemed to like standing behind bushes for shade. This is a momma with her little one.
We tried this road, but we turned around when we hit what I call a rock mine field, lots of sharp rocks and the road looked like it was petering out.
We’d passed another road on the way up so we drove back to it and took it. Eventually we headed down off the mountain to the main road, down this road.
When we hit the main road, there was another road across it, so we decided to go up it and see what was there. We stopped for lunch on the road, right here.
After lunch we drove back down to the main road and started on a couple hour drive to our next camp.
We drove by these horses grazing in a field next to a cowboy’s place.
This place is called Point of Rocks for some reason. We stopped for a break before continuing on.
Some of the quaking aspen are starting to turn.
We’re headed down into that valley to camp for the night.
We’ll be camping in the quaking aspens just below center of this picture.
We found our camp spot empty so we pulled in and made ourselves at home for another nice day.
The gas leak
Just after we pulled into camp, Marty checked to see if his repaired carburetor gas leak was leaking or not. It looked like his repair had held, so all was good.
Tomorrow we will make it to the Willow Creek Reservoir were we can get some internet access and publish blogs.
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.
