There were a few clouds in the sky today for a nice day.
Around 3 I hopped on the dirt bike and rode on up into the hills.
GeoTracker
But first I set up my phone with GeoMap as I wanted to try recording the routes where I walked today. All I had to do was open the app and push record and start walking and it would record where I went.
Water tanks
On the way up I went by the water tanks to check the pink ribbon water level gauge. The tanks are almost full, just two feed down from the top says the pink ribbon. That means I can water a bit more.
From there I rode on up to the trailhead where I’ve been working lately taking this road.
Old animal trail
When I got to the trailhead I sat down and enjoyed the day a bit before working my way up this old animal trail that seems to come and go in places.
No video today
I didn’t do a video today as I figured I’d be going around and around looking for the old trail in spots and be busy enough doing that.
Sticks
I spotted these two sticks poking up in the ground and remembered I’d put them there a long time ago to mark where a piece of the trail started so I followed them until I lost the trail again.
Some places were fairly easy going. I knew the trail had to be around here someplace or at least it should be as this was a likely place for one.
Old orange flag
I spotted this orange ribbon in the tree which I checked out. It turned out to be another mark of where the trail starts again which I had put up a long time ago, so I followed that for a bit until I lost the trail again.
Phone mapped
I made it as far as I wanted to go and decided to try and follow the route back that I had mapped on the phone, or at least watch the route to make sure I was going in the right direction. That turned out to be not so easy as with the big trees, the route didn’t seem to be that accurate, or maybe I just need more practice using the thing. :O)
Purpose
Anyway the purpose of this trip was to explore where the old trail went and try to figure out the best route so I needed to explore around a bit going different ways to have a look for the best way.
I went through these big redwood trees where it seemed the trail should go.
Break spot
I was pretty tired out by now so I sat down in this area for a break before making my way back to the trailhead where there was a chair that I needed to use.
The view
It was quite a ways back to the trailhead and I was pretty warn out by the time I got there. I sat down and enjoyed the view and rested up a bit.
Map route
I checked out the app on the phone which looked like this . The trailhead is on the left and I walked to the right and on back again.
You can see from all the squiggles that I wondered around a bit.
Headed for home
Once I was rested up enough I hopped on my trusty dirt bike and rode on down to this spot where I stopped to check out a water spring.
I rode on home from there and about all I could do was a nap.
While it may be a fun app and could prove to be helpful,
it sure lets you know you’re not alone in the woods.
Big brother is by your side.
Wonder where you wander no more :o)
Have a nice day, Bob.
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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.
While it may be a fun app and could prove to be helpful,
it sure lets you know you’re not alone in the woods.
Big brother is by your side.
Wonder where you wander no more :o)
Have a nice day, Bob.