High and Low Muffles

Some of the original spruce trees between Head House and High Muffles. These would have been planted around 1950.

Bungalow at Low Muffles.

There are two of these simple but rather appealing houses down here.

They were built to house forest workers, but this one has been a holiday let for several years. 

It is now for sale - but at a rather ridiculous £320,000.

If the adjacent fields which previously were with it were included this still seems far too much!
To be fair internally it has been completely refurbished, and there are some small but quite useful outbuildings, plus space for another workshop or garage of modest size.
Can you tell I rather like it?
There is no internet or mobile phone though :(

Sunday ride video

Quite pleased with this one, the improving light levels and getting out a bit earlier made a big difference.

Caydale Mill Ford

This an unusual long ford maybe 40 metres where the stream runs along the road, which is surfaced with concrete.

Today it was about a foot deep which is unusual as often it is more like a couple of inches even in winter.

Sutton Bank gliding club

First fine day of 2014

Attaching the tow line

Malton market car park

First biking Drift Ghost footage

I had the microphone and camera mount already to go for about a week now but the weather had been really poor on days I wasn't committed to something else so this is the first helmet mount run with the Ghost.

All seems very good at first go which is surprising.
The sound quality is almost unbelievable from a tiny mic in the helmet chin piece, and quality of video in rather low light (just after sunset) can hardly be faulted in the original, you do need to look at 1080p to see it anything near as good on youtube though.

Stokesley Road Video

Took the Drift Ghost to Stokesley - with simple velcro mount on passenger headrest.
The original footage is gobsmackingly good but still not 100% happy with the rendering for youtube.
Some stuff online looks better but must take into consideration car vibration, looking through dirty windows and low light levels.

This is a standard youtube settings from Adobe Premier which even at 1080p gives a size much smaller than the 'best' settings recommended by some places online.
In fact the 1080p version is less than half the size of even a 720p version done at some recommended settings.

The camera battery life seems excellent with the indicator suggesting only 1/3 used after 45 minutes recording.
They do claim up to three hours which might be achievable,
 Hardly dented the 32GB card with that too.