It’s been a while since I logged any adventure in my adventure section hasn’t it? Far too long I think. Of course, it’s a bit difficult to record things on a broken blog, and boy was it. That is now fixed. The next step is to actually have something to add. Problem is I’m not really all that great at getting “backlogged” adventures up, and for a couple of weeks I haven’t had anything new to contribute.

As it happens some wackiness a few weeks ago (that I’ll hopefully get posted, but probably not :P) resulted in someone asking me nicely to “be more careful with myself” as it were, which in turn really puts a damper on random exploration. Believe it or not I didn’t mind a bit; it was probably the first time anyone had shown me honest concern instead of some smarmy “don’t go die!” derision. The whole thing came from WAY out of left field, but I still found it heart warming and so was willing to comply. Ultimately though it turns out said concern (along with many other things) was a complete farce. Obviously when I figured that out any agreement was immediately null and void. Depressing to say the least, and not something I want to divulge all the details about publicly. But hey, at least I’m free to do my thing again right? Edit: Or not? Time will tell, but perhaps I made a hasty assumption. Communication is key.

Sooooo, blog fixed, freedom restored. Nothing left but to recover my full strength and find something to do with it. 🙂

That something took the form of a second trip up the Dix River to get better photographs of the dam apparatus. On my previous trip I did not have the necessary camera equipment needed to get worthwhile photos. A little high def GoPro video augmented by some 8MP still shots would fix that right up. Or at least, it would have if I could learn to leave on time. I didn’t get to the dam until well after dark, and as anyone else who uses a GoPro can tell you, the one flaw they have is needing an abundance of light. Ahh well, at least I still got to see it for myself. As an added bonus, the darkness gave me an opportunity to climb around for some up close & personal looks at the pen-stocks, dam structure and a few other nick knacks.

Sadly I did not run into Dan this time, making it just a Dam, & Dix trip. Would have liked to chat with him again, but since I still need photos I’ll be back soon enough. Maybe next time.

Here is the footage I did take, along with a route plot. The video runs from put in to just about the first rapid, at which point I turned the camera off since it was obviously not going to record much else from that point. Just for extra fun, the sensors in my GPS went awry a bit (just a tiny bit) sending my plot on a 21,000+ mile detour; averaging over 5000kph! Now THAT’S some paddling!