{"id":43,"date":"2008-05-11T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-05-11T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T01:57:22","slug":"the-stuff-one-finds-in-the-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/the-stuff-one-finds-in-the-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"The stuff one finds in the woods…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One sure can find odd things back in the woods.<\/p>\n

I’ve recently returned from visiting my grandparents up north and doing a bunch of biking along the roads and trails, finding all sorts of interesting places which I’d like to explore more in the future.<\/p>\n

I ended up having to put the knobby tires back on my bike for the offroad riding, but I was glad I did. I had no problems wandering around all sorts of fire trails, dirt roads, and other random, interesting areas. One of those more interesting areas was what I first thought to be an oil drilling dumping ground. It contained all sorts of interesting metal parts, old vehicles, trailers (including some marked radioactive<\/a>), and other discarded stuff. After talking to my grandparents it turns out that I was on the property of a friend of theirs named Charlie who happens to collect a bunch of stuff like that. Best I can tell, he is also the owner of the old CD vehicle seen above. (If any of you can figure out the city it is from based on this photo<\/a> I’d love to know.)<\/p>\n

While I didn’t go that far (only about 30 miles over the two days), I do definitely want to head back up there and do some more riding. I would definitely like to tackle the portion of the North Country Trail<\/a> which I happened to come across, but I’m not really sure if it can be legally biked. The information I come across on this seems very, very mixed. I figure if I’m careful, stick to the trail, and don’t bother anyone it won’t be a problem. That said, I turned back at this point<\/a> because it was too steep for me to ride up. There is, of course, a whole bunch of ORV trails in the area, but they are too sandy to ride on a bike. Even my wide knobby tires regularly sank in past the rim.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to see the KMZ aggregated to cover most of this weekend’s riding it can be found here, with the nodes differentiating things by ride and date: 10-11-May-2008.kmz<\/a><\/p>\n

The rest of the photos, including the ones from when I headed out wandering on the sandbar off of Old Mission Point, can be found here: Up North (May 2008)<\/a><\/p>\n

(Oh, and yes, I know those photos are a bit crap. They were taken with my old Nikon Coolpix 5400<\/a> which was nice for its time, but is now just so-so. Also, it’s big and not weatherproof one bit. I’m thinking I’ll probably replace it with one of these Olympus shockproof and waterproof, internally zooming cameras<\/a>. The quality probably won’t be great on them either, but at least it’ll fit nicely in my bag and I won’t have to worry about rain or a fall damaging it. Although, realizing that the camera is five years old, maybe those photos aren’t that bad…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One sure can find odd things back in the woods. I’ve recently returned from visiting my grandparents up north and doing a bunch of biking…<\/p>\n

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