Pink Ribbon Water Gauge and Trail Work Exploring

Sunday July 3, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Chair hopping day

I mostly chair hopped around the yard today, until about 4 when I hopped on the dirt bike and rode up into the hills to explore the trail where I was working.

Pink ribbon water gauge

I stopped at our water tanks to make a short video of how that pink ribbon works to measure the water level in the tanks, since a couple of commenters wanted to know how it works.

The pink ribbon is tied to a lead weight that is on a cord that goes to the top of the tank.

The cord goes through two pulleys and the cord goes into the tank to a redwood board that floats on the top of the water.

When the pink ribbon is at the bottom of the tank the tank is full of water and when the ribbon is at the top of the tank the tank is empty of water. Simple.

Here’s the video I made of it.

https://youtu.be/xP4SQRtMOt0

Riding up the trail

Video of today’s trail explore

https://youtu.be/eQMyl9IV2Fs

Nice trail

I continued on up the trail headed to the trailhead where I was working.

I did stop and move this old log off the road on the way.

And I parked here on the ridge top where the trailhead starts.

Old trail goes through here

I wanted to walk out the old trail to see where and how it goes. I decided to shoot some video of the process of exploring and went through here as that’s where the old trail goes.

I had to hunt for the old trail in some spots as not many animals have used it in years it looks like. And trees have grown and falling blocking parts of the trail.

Far enough

I made it this far and decided that was enough exploring for one day. I needed to come back to see where it went from here as I think I need to make an adjustment in the trail here as it goes down steeper than I want.