My camp last night was heading to Death Valley. But after thinking about it at night I decided not to go there instead going back out and hitting highway 95 North.
Old days of my youth
I spent a good deal of time in my youth exploring Death Valley before it got so popular and that’s the way I want to remember it so no use going back through it and remembering how it used to be.
I got on highway 127 north which led to highway 95 north and traveled that most of the day.
There was snow in the mountains.
I turned off on highway 266 which went to highway six towards Bishop. I found a place to camp up in that valley.
Looking for a camp spot
I stopped at this spot which showed on the map as access to National Forest land where I should be able to find some free camping.
Tonight’s camp spot
After checking out the road I drove on in about a half mile. I’m low on gas so didn’t go in any further. I’d had planned to do some exploring around this area in the van but I failed to get gas at Dyer, mostly because the place was so small I missed the gas place.
I think I have enough gas to make it to Bishop, at least I hope so. I’ll find out tomorrow morning.
This was tonight’s sunset just after the sun went down.
Plans
Tomorrow I hope to make it to Bishop for gas and internet than continue North on highway 395 up around Walker somewhere to camp for the night and maybe do a bit of exploring once I have some gas.
Nice day cruising along the highways and the weather has been nice also.
Explored the deserts of southern California and Death Valley numerous times also. Glad to see you can still park and camp up the 395 although I figured it was still pretty open. Camped up at the top of Sonora Pass so many times it’s like a tradition. I’ve enjoyed checking in on your desert trip!
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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.
Great looking camp spot! Another gorgeous sunset.
Explored the deserts of southern California and Death Valley numerous times also. Glad to see you can still park and camp up the 395 although I figured it was still pretty open. Camped up at the top of Sonora Pass so many times it’s like a tradition. I’ve enjoyed checking in on your desert trip!