The video streams for the first two days of my hiking were bad. Really really bad. I’m not striving for National Geographic levels of adventure video here, but the camera (an old iPhone 6s Plus) should at least be pointed in the right direction. I ditched my original phone mount which was frugally and hastily crafted from a Ziploc bag and some gaff tape. I proceeded to come up with a more complex but hacked solution using an old phone car mount, some plastic carved from the back of an old phone case, and more gaff tape. An extra elastic strap from a bike mount for my phone was co-opted to secure the phone in the mount. I now had the ability to actually point my camera in roughly the right direction AND orient the phone in landscape mode like a proper video. What I did not have was the ability to easily check the screen of the phone while hiking. This resulted in the video getting stopped somehow and me not noticing for about an hour so I lost some footage of our walk along the Neponset River. The video gets resumed later in the hike but then again I accidentally stop the video but this time I noticed right away so I was able to restart it and continue.
The first video from the day covers the Burma Road Trail from start to finish with Patricia and Wesley joining me and it goes on to cover us backtracking until we find where the trail splits and heads North-West as it traces along the Neponset River. Shortly after we take the turn, the video cuts out.
The second video picks up about an hour later. So it missed some really nice footage from our hike along the Neponset and my first crossing of the Swamp Trail. it also missed when Patricia and Wesley split off to head home while continued on to finish my planned hike for the day. I stopped for some water and a granola bar and that’s when I noticed the video was stopped. I restarted when I was somewhere along the Green Hill Path and it recorded the rest of my hike, but with one more start/stop that split the video into two chunks along the way. At least I got some nice shots of me leap-frogging through back through the Swamp Trail and it also recorded a brief encounter with a first time hike where I shared my map to help him get oriented.
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