Mild "off roading"! And not at the mall!

[RayLCC]

I just got back from taking the kids on a camping trip to Williams Fork Res. by Kremmling.
We got to spend a few days getting eaten alive by mosquito's and not catching fish, but had a great time anyway.

One of the best parts was being able to do some mild "off roading" (basically the rougher, un-maintained trails around the campsite) while we looked for firewood. Not difficult by any means, but it gave the boys a good start in "offroading". They learned that bouncing around in ruts and dips and having the Explorer lean in various directions can be fun instead of scary.

All-in-all it was a good trip. Maybe next year, with some fresher tires we can try a real trail. :thumbsup:

[RayLCC]

I tried loading pics into the gallery but it says its out of memory. Are the pics too big or does my comp have alzeheimers? :)

[bronc_17113]

awesome man always good to get the kids out fishing and camping ............... hunting season is just around the corner

[mattadams]

if you're trying to upload super-huge photos, try resizing them down first. generally speaking most photos that todays cameras take are about 5-10 times the size that display on the average computer monitor and tend to take way too much space...

[RayLCC]

if you're trying to upload super-huge photos, try resizing them down first. generally speaking most photos that todays cameras take are about 5-10 times the size that display on the average computer monitor and tend to take way too much space...

Ok, so I think I know how to resize the pics now, (damn windows photo-viewer thing makes you search around to figure out how to do it) whats a good "ballpark" size size to stick to?
for example, a photo I was trying to load is now Width: 3264 and Height: 2448.

What should I scale that down to for posting?

[mattadams]

for posting I generally keep the images around 640x480, 800x600 tops. Most monitors, even bigger ones are no bigger than 1024x768 or 1600x1200.

[RayLCC]

ok, somethings screwy. I got the pic (jpeg file) down to 150x113 and it still says it exceeds the forum standards by 10kb.

[1freaky1]

Ray you can resize them in windows paint pretty easy. That is what I usually do, I can cut them down by setting the percentage to a smaller size say from 100 to 25 and it works good w/o losing anything.

[mattadams]

Ray, you can try to upload them again, but best practice is to go to the photo gallery and upload them there, then link to them on the forums...

[RayLCC]

http://www.rmftc.com/gallery/data/500/medium/032a.jpg (http://www.rmftc.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1354&size=big&cat=500)

[RayLCC]

Yay, it works! Now I have to resize the other pics.

[bronc_17113]

thats a clean looking exploder