Saturday October 5, 2024 Antelope Lake, Plumas National Forest CA.
Headed for the high country
We are headed up this road to do some exploring. We are headed up into the mountains looking around and always an eye open for a camp site.
It didn’t take long to get up to the higher roads.
They’ve had a lot of forest fires up here over the years as a lot of the trees were dead.
There were a lot of nice vista views up here as we drove along.
Going through another burned area.
The roads were easy going.
And quite scenic with all the big rocks.
We are coming down to Antelope Lake where we hope to find a camp site near there. There are only fee based camp sites at the lake, which we do not use.
Some clouds were forming up in the afternoon, but no rain.
No fee camp
We went to a place near the lake that we knew about that was no fee and more to our liking.
Nice day.
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We had a new area we wanted to check out not far from where we were. We thought most of the roads would be paved today, but.
We started out on this road headed up to Antilope Lake and we went around the lake where we where going to catch another paved road.
Detour
But the other paved road had Road Closed signs on it, so we had to turn around and retrace our route and take another way which was not paved roads and a lot longer to get to where we were going.
We turned around at the road closed signs.
We started going the other way on this road. A fire burned though this area a few years ago.
We crossed this creek but there was no way to get down to it.
We stopped here for a short break and to check our maps.
We ended up in the mountains on mountain type roads.
Windy
It was real windy today and we heard some trees falling earlier.
Fortunately, this tree was a small one and we could get through it.
Typical mountain road for a long way. We went down it for a long ways.
This creek we passed had a lot of big boulders in it with limited access.
No camp spot here
We’d been exploring all day long on the back roads, but now we’d arrived in the area we came to explore. We pulled into this spot to look for a camp spot, But.
It turned out to be someone’s back yard, so we headed back for the road to look some more.
On the way out a flock of wild turkeys walked by us.
Locals
We saw some locals on the side of the road so stopped to talk with them a bit. Turns out most of this land we wanted to explore is private land and not National forest land.
Not good, but that’s exploring. We asked about why the road we were at this morning was closed. They said they are working on it and you can go through the signs that say road closed.
Bust
Since this area is a bust as far as exploring, we opted to head back to where we were this morning on the closed road. We drove up the closed road a ways and saw a road off it that lead to a creek and we took that which worked out for our camp spot tonight.
The camp spot has a nice creek running by it.
I put out one of the crawdad traps to try my luck.
We spent the rest of the day taking it easy.
Maps
Looking at the maps tonight, there are some more creeks with roads by them just up ahead, so we’ll try and explore them tomorrow.
Nice day.
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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.
