Southern California Club Xterra
Southern California Club Xterra => SCCX Xcursion Pictures => Topic started by: Paul on August 24, 2009, 10:00:23 PM
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Aug 2009 Big Bear Area - not much to see on the Radford Trail but Gold Mountain was exciting as usual and did not disappoint. About a mile or so off the pavement there's a nice challenge.
Nice NEW 2009 WHITE truck driven by Brian (#2)
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/09-08%20Aug%202009%20Gold%20Mountain/DSC_6207.jpg)
Guy returns.
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John (Sturmdog) along with is new bride and their daughter Kennedy. You can sort of read the difference in their body language and John puts the truck light on the passenger side.
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Doesn't look like it's going to roll but it's tipped over pretty good.
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After clearing Diana is smiling and Troy climbs off the slider.
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Denise snapping pictures.
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Guy making the grade. Spence did a great job spotting!
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The view from the camp ground in Round Valley
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And for Mark, Korean barbecue ... this month's meat-on-a-stick!
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More pictures to follow. I also shot about 10 minutes worth of video using a magnet mount "extreme" camera and the video came out pretty good for the climb up that first second of Gold Mountain. First I had it attached to John's front bumper and on mine it was attached to my slider bar extension.
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I remember that section in Gold Mountain--gnarly but definitely worth the trek! That shot of the BBQ made my stomach speak to me in dirty French... looks very tasty! Thanks for sharing Paul! Can't wait to see the rest and the video!
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haha nice one sturndog way to scare the family....
she will learn to just get out and "take photos"
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She must hate me, becuase after i struggle through that section, we found an easier line.
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There wasn't a moon out Saturday night and the skies were very clear.
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The remains of a arrastra - a drag stone used to pulverize ores.
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Along the squeeze leading up Heartbreak Ridge.
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Another one of those quality family moments!
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At the end of the trail
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Great pictures Paul, thanks for sharing. :)
I took a few with my crappy cell phone but this is the only one that came out ok. I need a new camera badly.
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Very nice Paul.
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Nice shots as usual Paul. You must have a really wide monitor, and size the pics really wide, because I can never see the whole width of your pics on my Mac, and it's even worse on the 19" PC monitor I have at work, since it's even more square than the Mac. I have to scroll down to the last one in the group, then across and go back up to see the other side of each one.
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I've got twin 19's but the photos are 1024x768 which is standard for a 17" monitor's desktop size.
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I've got twin 19's but the photos are 1024x768 which is standard for a 17" monitor's desktop size.
I guess the problem is that the pics don't show as full screen because of the panel on the left of the website. Even if I change my display to 1024x768 I still can't see the whole width of the pic, and still need to scroll across, which on this site you can't do until you first scroll down to the end of the stack of pics. Right now my monitor is set to 1152x720, anything else distorts the text.
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So glad to be a part of a club whose passion for the Xterra and the outdoors is just as much as their passion for photography. I really miss being out there!
Brian #2! Nice job on the lunch pic!
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Great pictures Paul. How did the video turn out ?
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Great pictures Paul. How did the video turn out ?
The on-the-truck videos came out wicked good. What I also needed was some pictures of other trucks climbing the same spot to show the trail action from the "outside" so that I could edit back and forth. That plan failed when I had to take my dog back to the truck to let Noon watch the next six trucks climb that section of the trail.
I'm not even sure why she forced me to walk the half a mile down the trail with the dog in the first place. ::)
Next time I'll bring a tripod and "work" the shoot harder. The video from the bumper mounted camera is wicked and is a great point-of-view angle.
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"Hello auto club? There's this Range Rover stuck ...."
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Dalek!!! :o
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Let's try a video!
http://i6.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/09-08%20Aug%202009%20Gold%20Mountain/SCCXVideoSmaller.flv
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Great video Paul.
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Great video. It took us a while to figure out what a Dalek was, but once we did we couldn't stop laughing.
Thanks
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Great video. It took us a while to figure out what a Dalek was, but once we did we couldn't stop laughing.
Thanks
Dr. Who of course!
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After we got out of the difficult area of the slot heading back down Heartbreak Ridge.
http://i6.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/09-08%20Aug%202009%20Gold%20Mountain/HeartbreakRidge.flv
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Here's a panoramic photo taken as we were finishing the trail.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/09-08%20Aug%202009%20Gold%20Mountain/PanoramaSmaller.jpg)
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Paul!
That is simply an awesome... awesome footage! Love the different camera placement: the tires, the bumper... I bet there's an overhead by the roofrack mount coming too! The mount by the tire captures enough of the background and see some wheel action at the same time. The bumper captures the terrain close enough to see good depth perception over the course of the trail.
The last section seems to have a bit of a pucker factor... just like that one by Gold Mountain.
Great job Paul! Thanks for sharing! Based on the pics and footage, seems like you guys had a blast!
Good times!
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Yeah I'm going to put one up by the light bar next trip. I'm also going to have a pole that can attach to the slider or front bumper to move the camera a bit further away from the truck. This trip was an experiment. Most of it worked. I did mange to mount the camera up-side down for one shot and 90 degrees sideways for another ... gotta' fix that video.
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Nice spread on the panoramic shot!
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Great video Paul.
I need to get back out there