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You can do Lincoln peak on a powde r day but you really have to know how to play it. I start off the on the super bravo, then head over to heavens gate starting on the trails and then into paradise woods. Do laps there for a couple hours, then head over to north lynx via the gate house. Then go through the woods to castlerock where the lift line is generally manageable by that time. If it’s not, head back up north lynx to slidebrook and take the bus on German flats either back to Lincoln peak or over to mt Ellen. i think the issues with the northridge quad were resolved a few seasons ago after a particularly bad winter when they replaced the electronics on the lift. Also, Vermont adaptive is planning a big addition to the base lodge at mount Ellen which will result in a significant expansion of the public areas too. Not sure when that is due to happen.

Crickets. I picked up a whopping .06" the other day to bring the monthly total to to 1.06". Trails are bone dry. Been noticing a large volume of acorns, for what that's worth. Its really been a pleasure having the windows open and ac off in the house.

Its still called Black Diamond. Great narrow steep rocky trail.

I'm at an even inch for the month so far.

43f here

Surprising .26” here overnight into this morning.

.4" yesterday to start the month off right.

That’s how Ithaca was when I was there 30 years ago but now it’s gentrified with a bunch of new hotels, restaurants breweries and what not. Still not the hamptons or anything, but nice.

Why is that? Do they have ownership of their enterprises in religious non profit entities? i don’t know anything about the underlying economics of the region but those small towns appear to be in good shape as opposed to the Catskills region where the towns look like Appalachia.

Natural beauty but also the finger lake towns are really nice too. The little ones, not the cities.

biking in the woods around me there are definitely leaves coming down. I have some white birch trees at my house and their leaves are changing already.

Exactly. I’ve biked shindigsn hollow in Ithaca a bunch of times as well as a few places around bgm where my son went to school. Car is stuffed with her gear. If i have any free time, and I should, I’ll hike a gorge, preferably the one at Treman state park. They’re all spectacular, but treman, I think, has the best trail setup. Pics below from my last visit in June. Up to .63” here and 4.24” on the month.

75/74 here with light rain. .32” in the bucket. i decided at about 3:30 to leave the Bronx and head home for a bike ride. In the clear until Hawthorne where skies blackened. By the time I hit briarcliff it was pouring. So I waited it out and rode at 5. Little soupy and wet but a good ride nonetheless. driving to Ithaca tomorrow and looking forward to some nice dry cool weather.

are you looking at kayaking from annseville circle? note that there is also a rental place at the croton train station to kayak on the croton river. also one at croton point park but not sure thats operating on weekdays. anywhere along the peekskill waterfront would be a great vantage point for storms. radar looks like something coming through now and then clearing thereafter.

I only got .03” the other day but at 3.58” for the month.

And I got barely Anything here. Looked good on radar

Finished with .86”. Soaked. 72/71. Gonna be a sticky one today.

Really coming down. .61” in the last 20 minutes.

Where is it you work?

There’s no way to do this surreptitiously. It’s right by a significant roadway intersection.

Not exactly a planned subdivision. The old dam downstream on my property is from the 1700s. The big dam further downstream that made the lake was built in the 1800’s to supply water to the croton train station for the steam locomotives.

I’d have to agree, although this particular area is completely within my neighbors property. They own the land on both sides of the stream, as do I just downstream from there. This area didn’t just fill in with silt, there were some major flooding events that did the majority of the filling in, especially Floyd (I think that was the one). Tons of rock and gravel were deposited in there from the gravel road which runs by the stream. I’d think the carting away and disposal of the mud would be the most significant part of the cost. You can see the erstwhile swimming hole in this google map image circled in black. When the stream floods, all the gravel from the road circled in blue gets carried into the pond.

Interesting. My neighbor upstream had a swimming hole that was allowed to fill in with silt such that it is now mostly marsh and swamp. I've always wondered what it would cost to dredge something like that. I would think it would take an excavator a couple few days to dig plus whatever to haul and dump the mud. Is that 10k, 100k, 500k? the big dam on the pond/lake abutting my property was recently rebuilt with concrete and that thing isnt going anywhere. great fishing in there if anyones interested. can't swim in it because of snapping turtles.

The Brooke that runs through my property is at normal level for this time of year.

‘Nothing here but the wife got caught in a torrential downpour in white plains.