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@douglasvb I think they are blooming now, but I am not sure how long the bloom lasts. I’ll take some photos!

Next week’s trip.

#AnzaBorrego #OffRoad #Overland

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx790c6RDkK7TlyLIcaYZ63OFwZoO1UsLE

Big overlanding trip coming up next week, but for now here's a diversion. Back in '82, long before any of that, I spent the summer three thousand feet underground at a Yorkshire coal mine. Chapter 3 of my serialized memoir is now live on Substack. Down t'pit.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-3-down-tpit

#GameDev #RetroGaming #Memoir #Yorkshire #Barnsley #CoalMining

Planning a big trip in a week and of course *now* I decide to do all those truck and camper mods I’ve been thinking about. Nothing like the motivation of hard deadlines!

Guess where?

#Sunset #LandscapePhotography #GoldenHour #Nature #SkyPorn

A stunning sunset scene features vibrant shades of pink, orange, and purple painting the sky. Dark, silhouetted mountains stretch across the horizon beneath a dramatic, cloud-filled atmosphere.

@croyle I can’t count the number of times I have charged the drone batteries and remote, but never got it out of its case on a trip just because of the sheer faff.

@croyle [edit: my response went into the alt text - not familiar with this new masto client yet] Update! The 2ft (really closer to 3ft) works great, stable footage on the 360 cam, and also bonus angles like this!

Update! The 2ft (really closer to 3ft) works great, stable footage on the 360 cam, and also bonus angles like this!

@croyle well the longer one was no use whatsoever! I used the shorter one which appeared much better. I’ve yet to review footage. 🤞🏻

@Weather_Rock_Wx we didn’t see any wildflowers up there. Plenty of green, looked like the Sound of Music in places, half expected to bump into the Von Trapp family. :)

@douglasvb @Weather_Rock_Wx the BLM map seems to be wrong in term of getting to R11.

@douglasvb @Weather_Rock_Wx didn’t need to go through the north gate, just made a right turn before the gate and then left on R11. It’s pretty much all in the ACEC.

Amazing day at Joaquin Ridge in Clear Creek today! Some snapshots. Full video captured in 360 from Coalinga Road to the terminus of Joaquin Ridge Road, 25 miles of dirt each way, 50 miles total. I need to get editing some video!

Oh there was a little snow up there.

#ClearCreek #JoaquinRidge #OffRoad #OffTheBeatenTrack #PowerWagon

A red Ram truck with a camper shell navigating a muddy, snow-covered dirt path on a hillside, with a cloudy blue sky above.

A red Ram heavy-duty truck with a camper shell parked on a gravel overlook, capturing a scenic view of rolling green hills and mountains under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

A red Ram heavy-duty truck with a camper shell parked on a dirt lot next to a metal fence and a small pond, with a forest and a bright blue sky in the background.

Headed in the opposite direction to Junipero Serra today, up to Clear Creek and Joaquin Ridge. Pretty start to the day though.

Sunrise lights the eastern face of Junipero Serra Peak.

@croyle yeah they are surprisingly affordable.

@croyle honest to goodness, mine looks like this, 4TB SSD. I do have a RAID setup at my desk, but I haven’t sat at the desk since I got back from the UK in December. The SSD is “mounted” to the laptop using one of those sticky poster mounting discs. I must admit, the SD reader there was a bit of wishful thinking because the laptop does not really open with it in that location, so it does not live there in reality.

A closed gray Apple laptop rests on a wooden surface. On top of the laptop, a black Crucial portable SSD and a silver card reader with an SD card inserted are connected to the laptop's side ports with short black cables.

Clear Creek permits for the weekend, Joaquin Ridge on the plan! ⛰️

Williams Hill in the mist this morning.

#WilliamsHill #LockwoodCA #MontereyCounty #CaliforniaLandscape #CentralCoast #FoggyMorning #ValleyFog #NaturePhotography #RollingHills #CaliforniaCentralCoast #LandscapePhotography

A serene landscape view of Williams Hill in Lockwood, California. A dark silhouette of trees lines the foreground, standing before a valley completely filled with a thick layer of low white fog. Beyond the fog, rolling hills stretch into the distance, leading to a prominent mountain peak topped with small communication towers. The sky is pale and hazy, featuring a faint airplane contrail angling upwards near the peak.

Steve boosted:

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@stevewetherill/116121102631092040

"Most of my classmates were headed straight for the pits. You could earn a decent wage as a miner, and for many, it was the only future they saw. It wasn’t even a question of choice. Their fathers and grandfathers had been miners, and that generational momentum meant you simply followed them down. That was the life laid out for you. That’s just what you did."

An excerpt from chapter 2 (linked in the quoted toot) of my serialized memoir, just published on Substack. Chapters are always free to read; paid subs are completely optional. Support my efforts if you like what you see. :)

The first three chapters of the memoir concern the "whence", the how I got to the point of starting game development. Chapters four and on will cover my game development career, with its successes and failures, in more detail than I have ever shared before, including many new details and a lot more personal.

Steve boosted:

Chapter 2 of my memoir is up: "The Locked Room."

A computer no one could touch, a lift that never stopped, and the Z80 chip that turned out to be more important than anyone told me.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-2-the-locked-room

#GameDev #Memoir #RetroComputing #Z80 #Substack

@douglasvb according to some web searches snow line was 2,000–3,500 feet, but diminishing now.

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