I do love riding with the women Kathleen, and definitely prefer it for a class. Enjoy!

Thanks Rich! I'm still operating on the cautious side and will walk the scarier bits but fewer things scare me now. Getting better at letting the bike roll.

Why thank ya!

There's amazing hiking and biking of all flavors here Scott, I recommend it.

We did a one day mtb tour and lesson in Moab a few years ago. It was the absolute best. You have me searching for beginner women mtb classes this summer at Whistler.

I am just catching up here on my reading, and ouch! Even though cactus aren’t a problem where I am I think folding scissors are a brilliant idea for the first aid kit. I hope once the spines are out of your hand the healing is quick.

Lookin' great, lady! Like a real pro.

Kudos to you for pushing your limits! It's very impressive!!

Yes, this looks like an excellent idea.

We’ll, that’s impressive enough. Maybe we should break down and head up there some winter.

I have the app installed and thought it connected to the camera for a fleeting moment but couildn't reproduce it. I like the card reader method, and a Google backup would be ideal. This config stuff is on the same list as a twisty wash on the trail that I always chicken out on and walk. Eventually I'll figure them both out. Thanks for all these leads.

Oh yeah one other point: if Google is involved, and if you have the automatic backup feature enabled, it's possible you'll find copies of the photos on your Google Photos account.

That feature saved a summer's worth of photos for me when my home network storage device failed last fall. I had all but resigned myself to having only the photos I published to CycleBlaze when I found the entire collection on Google Photos.

My modus operandi had been to pull the card from the camera each day and use a card reader adapter to access them from my phone while I was writing each day's post. Unbeknownst to me, Google was busily backing the pictures up while it could see them, so I ended up not losing any pictures after all even though I had cleared the storage card earlier in the fall.

Perhaps you'll be as lucky?

I think you need to install an app on your phone before you can use the WiFi / Bluetooth connection feature from the camera. Once that's done, though, you can actually use your phone to control many of the camera's features including tripping the shutter.

Depending on the communication range that might enable, for example, roadside selfies as you ride past the camera.

Bat wings, too!

I wonder whether Scott Anderson is collecting commission on all the LUMIX camera purchases he's inspired? You, Susan Carpenter, me...