I hadn’t had anything planned to do today. But there’s always something to do in a forest.
I had a trail over at my cousin’s place that I’ve been looking at to open up if I could. I’ve checked out part of it, but I needed to check out the rest of it to see just what it would involve to open it up.
I jumped on one of my motor bikes and rode on up to our break area at the top of the mountain as the trail was nearby.
I took a good break there enjoying the day a bit.
Then I rode the bike the short distance to where the trail should start and parked and started walking down the hill from there. Most of the trail was pretty flat, but where it hit the old fire break road, I didn’t like what I saw. There was a real steep part of the fire break road just below where the trail came on the old road that was steeper than I like to ride my motor bike up
Steep part
This is much steeper than the picture shows. I’ll have to think about that as I wanted the trail to be easy to hike or ride. I left it to come back on the way back to decide what to do about it.
As I walked down the old fire break road, I spotted this cocoon. A big moth hatched out of it some time ago.
These aren’t that rare up here as I often find them.
Old road
Eventually, I made it onto this old road I made many years ago. It needed a bit of cleaning up and there was a slide that needed to be fixed a bit further down from here.
This is the old slide that needs to be cleaned up.
It’s good enough to walk through, but this is a fire road so the slide needs to be cleaned up.
I’d walked down the road to get to the slide which meant, now, I had to walk back up the hill for some distance, about a mile or so.
So, I started up the road, taking my time.
Every so often, I stopped and sat down on the side of the road for a break before proceeding on up the road some more. It was a nice day so I took my time.
I checked the fire break area out at the ridge top. Lots of old trees down on it which could use some cleaning up.
The steep part
Eventually I made it back to the part of the old fire break road that I didn’t like which was just too steep to use. I looked around in the woods on both sides of the road and found an old trail on the left that went around this steep part which would be easy to get fixed up. That was a good find as I didn’t like this steep hill.
Spring
I made it back to my bike and headed on down the hill, stopping at this spring to get a drink of water. Those green plants are Fox Glove plants. They are exceptionally large so there’s going to be some huge fox gloves here this summer. And yes, the drink of water hit the spot.
Trail work
I still had an hour or so before it got dark so I stopped here to widen this part of this trail out a bit on the other side of the tool.
That didn’t take long but it did give me some more exercise for the day. Like I needed more, eh. :O)
I made it home just before dark and locked the chickens up for the night.
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.
