It seemed like a good day to go up and work on doing some more repairs on the old trail so I rode my dirt bike up the trail to get to the work area,………….but.
I rode up the trail about one third of the way and spotted some downed trees blocking the trail. Now how was I going to get turned around on the narrow trail. Very carefully.
I’d need the chainsaw to get through these trees, so I needed to get the bike turned around so I could go home and get my chainsaw.
I got turned around in this spot by dragging the front of the bike around by hand.
I went on home and got my small chainsaw and drove Hondo back up to where the trail starts. I’d have to walk in now with the chainsaw.
I got the trees cut up into logs and rolled them down the hill.
Break rocks
After that, I headed on up the trail with the chainsaw and stopped here for a break at the break rocks I’d put there a long time ago when I was working on this trail. Comes in handy.
I stopped to cut this brush off the trail.
And then up the trail a little further, I ran into this downed tree so started cutting it up to get it off the trail.
There was quite a bit of brush in that one so it took awhile.
After that, I continued on up the trail. I think it’s about a mile up to where I want to work on the trail, although, it seems, I’m already working on the trail.
I stopped here on this rest log for another break.
And again at this other rest spot. I have lots of rest spots. :O)
And then I ran into a big log that was too large for the little saw to cut up. I’ll have to come back to get this one some other time.
Last one
I knew about this downed one, so that was as far as I went up the trail. It’s the little one there. I cut the large one a while ago with the big saw.
Digging
I went back to this big one that the trail goes under and worked on widening out this part a bit.
I got that all cleaned up just before dark and headed back down the trail as the forest darkened up and I had to watch out for the bogyman as I walked along the trail.
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.
