Not snowing in Portland – at least not yet – but it’s certainly cold enough for it.
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I just realised that having adobe creative suite at work, means I can also use it on my personal PC at home… so I have been trying to learn Premiere, over the last few days. Unfortunately my actual footage was pretty arse, and for a large part of it there was dust all over the lens so I had to max out the contrast to salvage anything at all. It was a free event which seemed to pull in a ton of folks from the local CX, MTB and Bikepacking scenes. Its a gravel event, so by nature its pretty boring, but the terrain was very challenging with the climbs and rocky surface.
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Needs narration. Like subscribe share
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I went shopping for di2 parts to repair and resell, and took my fancy new old lens (depth of field; ∞) along for the ride:
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Doh. Must have killed that variant. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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footage could be a lot worse!
if you ever have any premiere questions hmu
i [reluctantly] use it every day
Thanks for that, I am at a very basic level, I assume I could do a lot by getting my initial GoPro settings optimised to start with? I have a buddy who does a good job so I can always ask him before I get to your level of expertise.
I went out on saturday with my buddy armed with his field recording gear and a cellphone to try and get some recordings of the local Tieke or Saddlebacks.
They were extinct on the mainland but survived in a couple of small populations on some islands, now they are in our local trails, a few kms from my house.
Whenever I played a previously recorded call on my phone, they would come right up to check us out and call back.
I made up a couple of vids, see below. I had a short ride on my buddys Cherubim and it sure as hell felt nice. (Thats him in front in the second vid). He was running the Runny Arse Juniper ridges in 650B.
On the sunday I went out and joined the local trail builders who built the trail in the 2nd video, its still not finished. After 2 hours I reckon I had done about 1 metre of crude trail. Craft beer and sausages as a reward tho! As well as cool trails of course.
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Yesterday was my first time on the Crown Zellerbach trail.
Milky Nehalem river
I saw a herd of elk, but I didn’t want to take my eyes off the 3 bucks at the rear to get my phone out.
Riding new zones always triggers my anxiety, but I felt like this was a smarter decision than doing Smoke Ranch.
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Did you do the entire trail, including the (what used to be; maybe the trail has been improved on the west side of the Nehalem divide) funky parts at the west end?
I think so. I took it all the way out from Scappoose where it forked outside of Pittsburgh. I followed a road that paralleled the natural gas pipeline until it ended at 47. It was pretty desolate back there. That’s actually where I saw the elk. Then when I got outside Vernonia, I went back over the hike-a-bike that shows up on the trail maps. That was a soupy mess.
I was going for a metric century, but came up short at 55 mi in 5.5 hrs.
Edit:
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Slayed some fast, fun, perfectly damp high desert singletrack. This trail area is a good match for this dumb bike.
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That looks like a super fun place to ride. Do I remember you saying that you can ride to these trails?
This one in is about a 20min drive. But yes there are similar and better trails that are 3mi or less from my door.
My house is Midway between 10Barrrel Brewing and Pine Mtn Sports on this map:
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Ever get down to K Falls? I hear there are good trail things happening there.