Thursday March 29, 2018 Round Valley on highway 395 CA. above Bishop
North on highway 395
I’m leaving the camp area I was in when I cut the corner of highway 395 and 58.
I left camp and headed down this road which looked like the right one.
Well taken care of
I noticed this flag flying just off the road so I drove over to see what it was all about.
Seems David crashed his jet here in 2009 and his friends are remembering him.
Signs aren’t very helpful
The many roads out here are well marked, however the names of the roads are numbers of the BLM which I don’t have a map for, so I don’t really know where I’m going, but I’m sorta following my GPS map.
However the GPS was repeating Off Route, turn around for some reason. Sometimes this just means there has been a detour so I kept going for about two miles before I turned around and hunted for the right road with the GPS.
This is the road I got off on my mistake.
This is the road I should have been on as it leads out of here back to 395.
The map with the numbers
I didn’t really know where I was until I got to this information booth. On the back was a map showing all the roads with all the road numbers so now I had a chance.
It took me over three hours to do the twenty miles out of there and the other four also when I got side tracked. A very bumpy road.
But finally I was back on highway 395 going north.
Finding a camp spot
Lots of snow up on the mountains. I’ll be looking for a camp off to the right by the big power lines as there is BLM land there. This is just above Bishop, a place called Round Valley.
I’m not far off of highway 395 this time. Here is my camp spot for the night.
About a 100 yards to the rear of the van is the Owens River. This is called the Gorge.
I have about another hour to make it to Mono Lake which I will get to tomorrow morning once I get it going.
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.
