My back did ok yesterday when I worked on the trail so today I rode back up into the forest to do some more trail work. I wanted to rough out the part of the old animal trail I’ve been checking out.
Roughing it out
Mainly I wanted to make the parts of the old trail better in places it wasn’t so good. And I only wanted to rough it out so I can adjust it more on the next step to make it even more level than it was in some places.
The old trail goes through here. The trail’s not much in this spot but it’s at least is fairly level in this spot so it didn’t get much work yet as I worked on the worst spots first. And I could get through this spot without breaking my neck.
The old trail goes through here too, another fairly good spot.
Good place for a chair
I worked on mostly the steeper areas for a few hours, then headed back to the start of the trail where the chair was and you know what I did there.
Peaceful
I needed a rest so I spent some time in that chair just sitting and enjoying the peace of the forest.
Blocked road
Eventually I started for home going down this way when I could see the way was blocked. I’d forgotten about these downed trees.
The trees had the road blocked good so I turned around and picked another route.
A nicer way
This was the other route I picked to get down the hill which was actually a nicer way down than the way that was blocked with the trees.
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.
