The wonders of technology :)

In my 24 hours off from Pirates 4, I managed to head up north to join Thomas in Tehachapi to check out all the technology we will be taking on the hike. We loaded up our backpacks with Sony handheld cameras, solar rolls and power inverters and Thomas mounted his Go Pro camera on his hat and I tried out the chest strap mounting and we headed out for a hike. Once out there we tried to download our footage into a storage unit and hooked all electrical equipment to the solar roll to make sure all attachments worked and charged. The Go Pro helmet cameras were a real success. We did learn the best angles for the 'hat cam' and the 'chest cam' - too much sky is not so good, too much hat doesn't work either :). The stills camera took awesome photos and our Sony CX550 was an incredible HD video camera. Gorgeous footage and all automatic so takes the guess work out of filming. The solar roll has such power and I am really impressed with it but we have realized that much of our rest breaks will be filled with charging and recharging all the equipment we are carrying. We will need to be really on it. We found the gaps in our equipment and ordered more stuff online that night from a local restaurant. Hopefully UPS delivers quickly :)