A video of me riding down from the summit of Bald Mountain in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. I first hiked my bike for most of the way up Bald Mountain trail. Spent about an hour to make it to the top. Started to film from the top of Bald Mountain with beautiful Sonoma and Napa County views including Mount Saint Helena to the north, and on a clear day, includes views of the San Francisco Bay area to the south. On the way down I took Gray Pine trail to Meadow Trail. I used a Kodak Playsport camera with a Flip camera tripod strapped to my hydration backpack in two points. It gives the best possible shot I have found using this kind of camera. I also have attached to it a .5x wide angle lens. It makes it blurry around the edge of the video but I like the angle it allows the camera to capture.
Almost bailed at 2:48
xenergyx44 4 months ago
so sick dude! you nailed the camera angle, im sure the smooth track helped. I'm gunna find this new trail today they put in the other day its called the star lake connector trail. Leads up to Freel Peak the Eldorado County High Point. We need some GoPro's so we can get the job done.
DizzMcFunk 4 months ago
@DizzMcFunk Dude yeah the angle was a lot better I really just had to just tighten the chest strap all the way and I did a better job of velcro-ing the bottom of the tripod to the lower backpack stomach strap... I just made sure everything was pulled tight and to the center as much as possible and had to breathe shallow breaths hah...
xenergyx44 4 months ago