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🌲🌲 Our Public Lands 🌳🌲

Interactive maps with backcountry and roadside camping: New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia & Vermont.
List of NYS DEC Lean-Tos with map coordinates. List of NYS DEC Firetowers with map coordinates and more information.
Google Spreadsheet with Roadside, Primitive and Pay Campsites

Explore the Finger Lakes Trail, Long Path, Northville-Placid Trail and Long Trail/Appalachian in Vermont.
Catskill Park Mountain Peaks, Hudson Valley & Long Island Peaks, Peaks Over 3000 ft Elevation, Highest Peaks in Adirondacks, Interactive Map of All Named Summits in NYS, Blaze Colors in Catskill Park, Trailhead Parking Coordinates and Addresses in the Catskills.

Browse USGS Topo Quads as PDF 🆕 by State Lands or County. You can Bulk Download New & Old USGS Topograpic Maps.

Links to various NY State Land Websites 🆕. Get latest GIS Data from state Web Services.

⛺🌲 Camp 🌲🏕

Moose River Plains – Campsite Listing, Maps and photos of state’s largest free camping area.
Piseco-Powley Road – Campsite Listing, Maps and photos of 15 mile dirt road with camping.
Catskill Park Primitive Campsites – An overview of free camping locations in Catskill Park.
Burnt-Rossman Forest, Cattaraugus County, East Branch Sacandaga River, Finger Lakes National Forest, Madison County, Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virigina.

Campsite Coordinates for Bog River Flow / Lows Lake, Hudson River SMA (Buttermilk Falls), Lake Lila, Oswegathie River, Nine-Corner Lake, Pharaoh Lake Wilderness, Saranac River Campsites, Stillwater Lake, Schoharie County, and Sugar Hill State Forest.

Overview of Camping Areas in the Catskills, Green Mountains, Southern Adirondacks, Central Adirondacks, Northern Adirondacks, Allegheny National Forest and Penna. DCNR Motorized Campsites and the Monongahela National Forest West Virginia.

Free Campsite Overview Maps: Adirondack – North Country, Catskills, Central NY, Finger Lakes, Western NY. Interactive Map.

Places I camped in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.

Bicycle Trails and “Blackie” My Mountain Bike

Finally bought a mountain bike, after chewing over a mountain vs commuter bike. Really enjoying riding my bike to work and when it rains there is always a bike rack to safely take it back home. One way to get to adventures at Thacher Park is the Nature Bus.

Empire Trail – KMZ and Interactive Map. Parking along it.

More Trailways with KMZ files including the Albany County Rail Trail, Black Diamond Trail, Catharine Valley Trail, Catskill Scenic Trail, Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Rail Trail, Genesee Valley Trail, Link Trail.

🦌🌲 Hunt 🦃🐿

Wildlife Management Units (Deer) – KMZ Map shows the WMU boundaries.

Summer 2019 Aerial Photographs of WMUs

KMZ Maps of Deer Harvest Density by Town: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. By WMU 2017, 2016, 2015.

KMZ Maps of Buck Harvest Density by Town: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. By WMU 2017, 2016

2016 -2019 Deer and Buck Harvest by Town – KMZ Spreadsheet with FIPS codes for making your own calculations.

🎣🐡 Fish 🐟🐠

Parking and Access to Trout Streams – An interactive, downloadable KMZ Map.
Lakes with DEC Contour Maps – A KMZ Map links to Contour Maps for Fishing.

🌨🏔 Sled & Wheel 🚙❄

State Truck Trails Over A Half Mile – Dirt roads to explore in the backcountry.
NYS Statewide Snowmobile Trail System – State trails on public and private lands.

📉📊 Learn 💵📈

Interactive Maps of NY Census – Explore and download KML files.
Charts and Interactive Diagrams – From population to pollution control.
Andy Arthur GitHub – Git my R and Python scripts used to make maps and diagrams.
Use ArcPullR to Get Geospatial Data – Super easy way to connect to get GIS data in R from government servers.
GDAL Opens E00 Files – Most open source programs nowadays can open common geospatial formats.
NY Building Footprints – Where to find on the internet for making maps.
WMS and ArcMap Services – Downloadable CSV file listing services used on the blog.
2022 US Census Population Estimates – Red states, south continue to gain population.
2020 Cartogram of State Population

💳 🏛 Property Taxes 🏠💸

Properties in Albany Pine Bush Study Area, Excel Files: Various Tax Rolls, Find coordinates and political districts, Look Up State Tax Records and a Script for Processing RPTL 1520 PDFs. Match NY SWIS Codes to FIPS Codes and GEOID

🚗🚗 Big Red 🚗🚗

Big Red – Photos and Videos of my lifted truck with its camper shell. Big Red’s Dual Battery Setup for Camp Power, Video Tour and Diagram. Big Red is getting old. What is next? I’ve thought about going carless for a while to save money and reduce pollution. Or maybe going bigger? Or smaller? Five dollar gas sucks.

🔥🌲 Off-Grid Living 🏠🤠

I am seriously thinking about building an off-grid house. I have a first draft. I need to learn CAD! I have a road map towards buying land and building. I concede might have to live with long commute and give up traveling and camping. I need to be strong.

Why off grid? Well, I’m not into contemporary society. I want to own land, but not be called a landowner, and a cabin, not hooked to electrical grid, farm, raise pigs for food and burn my own trash. I’m saving for a better tomorrow, hoping to make the leap to another freer state. Having acreage is important. Cornfields aren’t bad neighbors. Maybe though my vision has grown smaller and more local. More on off-grid living.

I am 16 years into my career and have made some significant progress in my life. I love my job. But I do wonder on all the things I’m missing out but saving sure makes me high. Maybe it will be different when I own my own land — the end of goal of all this saving.

2020 into 2021 during the pandemic was a year of remote work. It was a struggle not having internet at home, worked a lot out of my truck. But I worked remotely from Horseshoe Lake which was super cool.

Generally I like the idea of owning land in a red state, particularly Idaho, Iowa, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin — and Midwest more generally. But I may settle for New York – it’s all about the f-ing money!

Learn to code for free modern HTML, Javascript, Python and SQL at freeCodeCamp and web development at the Odin Project.

Politics

Crunched Election Results with Turnout for Albany County: November 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and Primaries June 2019, Pres/June 2020, June 2021, June 2022, Aug 2022, June 2023.

Albany County Races converted to the new 2023 EDs using Super EDs and Code: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and Primaries June 2019, Pres/June 2020, June 2021, June 2022, Aug 2022.

Above Election Results as zipped Excel files.

Albany County Legi slature Districts 2024 Maps –

Maps Comparing 2017 and 2023 Albany County Election Districts and a Crosswalk Table Showing the Proposition of Voting Age Population in New and Old EDs

Maps of 2022 NYC Assembly Races, NYS Assembly Races, NY Senate Races, Governor’s Race in Erie County and Statewide. Partisan shift in governor race between 2010 and 2018.

A comparison of Democratic Performance 2022 Assembly Districts to those proposed in 2023 by the IRC. Here is latest 4/20/23 IRC Maps, showing ADP and how they change from existing Assembly districts. Most towns upstate, outside of cities, are quite red. Using LATFOR data with R to calculate Average Democratic Performance.

You can scrape employee salary data from SeeThroughNY using R. Other useful investigative resources.

I often think politics is for losers. I’m into the politics of statistical analysis and reading history books.

I believe strongly in the first amendment, second amendment, oppose gun restrictions and I support de-funding the police in favor of lower-cost technology and civilian employees. Maybe use red flag laws for voting to stop dangerous voters? And the media should stop promoting mass-shootings, even if it’s super profitable for all involved. They should tax the media when it promotes violence. I think some people are much too paranoid in politics. How elections are rigged under law to benefit incumbents. But vote, it’s the best option and inexpensive.

Yeah for the third parties! I voted for Larry Sharpe for Governor and Jo Jergenson for President but my views are complicated and often vote for Democrats, after voting Jill Stein Green Party in 2016.

Generally, I think Biden has been a good change over DJT and glad the Trump era is over and are glad prosecutors and grand jurors are holding him responsible by indicting him for many serious felonies. I don’t think Trump can win in 2024, as nothing has changed politically from 2020.

I think rural people should be left alone and not worship government workers or have parades for them. I am no fan of Donald Trump, his speeches are bad, I don’t like Trump’s embrace of radical environmentalists, but do admire the homemade roadside monuments to DJT.

I don’t toke. But whatever. There are too many transit authorities.

The Earth

Why I oppose wilderness areas and parks. It’s trendy to be green these days, but is eco-marketing good for the planet? I visited the Mount Storm Coal Plant and Corridor H.

I worry about a lot about overly-aggressive Climate Change Action, and Undermining Environment Laws for Climate Action. I think we should all admit we are Addicted to Fossil Fuels. These days, urban recycling has become a joke, when it’s still an option at all. It’s better to just buy less shit and avoid the alure of Costcos. I really don’t like how aging radicals have become industrial solar salespeople.

Big bucks are coming to state-designated disadvantaged communities under the CLCP. Which counties and political districts are in line for the the most pork? Interactive map.

I’m a big of farmers who are essentially Living Off the Earth and think Rednecks are Noble Savages. Dairy Farming are key to our rural landscape. I’d trust a farmer or a hunter in a pile of guts he’s butchered over any ivory-tower scientist.

🌎🔆 Industrial Solar 🌞 🏭

Hundreds of multi-acre industrial solar farms are being built in our state. How bad is solar for the environment? We should ask tough questions. Interactive of recently built solar farms, proposed facilities. List of proposed industrial solar facilities. See how the Greenville Solar Farm changed the landscape.

Saving Money

I am not a fan of ESG Investing as it’s not well diversified. I prefer index-funds and other tax-advantaged ways of saving. Why I am concerned about saving enough for retirement, even though I’m in my late 30s. We as a nation should save more, consume less. I like the idea of carbon tax to replace capital gains taxes to discourage consumption.

Mission Fifty & Being Healthier

I am now officially in my 40s! I am building to a better life in my 50s, which means getting up early, walking a lot, saying no to cake and yes to more fruit. In many ways, the forties are an awesome time to be alive.

And eating healthy for less without losing sleep over arsenic. And I don’t think we should subsidize unhealthy habits. How I got started in eating healther. Meals are too focused on meat and carbs due to how we describe them, maybe I eat too many bananas in the office, what to eat while camping, worry more about salt then GMOs, eat more beans. Do spend extra for farmers market peaches, especially doughnut peaches and plums. Consider ethnic supermarkets. Thinking about how to make a healthier macaroni and cheese, spinach-mackeral-pasta salad, quick-cook biscuits and whole-wheat bread. That said, too many recipes are junk food crap. Okay in moderation is not okay. The fact that I’m thinner is not a sign I’m dying.

A few years back I decided to explore my mental illness with therapy, thinking about why I have so much anxiety and how many of my values are rational or just thinking too much rednecks’ burn barrels and how much of a throwaway society we live in. Do I want to change?

I’ve learned to care less about the world, and focus more on myself. Maybe I am happier as I am now, saving and investing a lot towards owning my own land, where I don’t have to deal with all the bullshit of modern life.

Mission Fifty: Getting to the point where I own my own land.
Healthy Eating / Growing My Wealth
Healthy Thoughts / Enjoying Life

Questions, comments? Feel free to email me at andy@andyarthur.org.

I use GNU open source software.
Plus I like buck goats,
because they’re real macho men
spraying their beards with goat urine.

“March is upon us. Get out, enjoy it, be safe with fire and burning shit, and remember soon enough black flies are waiting.” – Andy Arthur

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October – December 2015 Albany Crime Statistics Breakdown

Albany provides a 3-month snapshot of crime statistics every few months. I thought it would be interesting to geocode the crime statistics and then compare against the Election District and Ward lines. For your reference, you can see this map to find specific Wards and EDs in the city.

The top wards for crime in fall 2015 where Wards 3, 12 and 2. The least number of crimes occurred in Wards 15 and 14.

Ward	Aggravated Assualt	Burglary	Larceny	Motor Vehicle Larceny	Rape	Robbery	Total
1	11	15	40	4		5	75
2	20	13	69	3	1	7	113
3	20	20	91	2	2	9	144
4	7	9	42	4		6	68
5	22	11	42	6		11	92
6	6	4	65			10	85
7	4	2	43	2	1	1	53
8		2	14				16
9	3	4	22	3		1	33
10	7	10	56	3		4	80
11	17	9	68	4	1	11	110
12	1	5	114	4		1	125
13	3	3	54	1		1	62
14	2	5	16			1	24
15	1		6	1			8
Total	124	112	742	37	5	68	1088

Crimes happened in different locations in each ward, although multiple dwellings followed by the street is the most common place where crimes occur in Albany.

Ward	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Total
Amusement Center									1							1
Auto Sales Lot											1	2				3
Auto Shop	2	3		4	1							1				11
Bar			3	1		5					2			1		12
Barber Beauty Shop				1												1
Church		1				2	1			3						7
Clothing Store			1			1						1				3
College						1	5						2			8
Department Discount	1		1		1	1					1	22				27
Doctors Office				1				1								2
Drug Store		2	6				3				1	3				15
Dry Cleaners Laundry	1	1				1					1					4
Field Woods											1					1
Financial Institutio		1	2						1			1				5
Garage Shed	1				1			1				1				4
Gas Station	2	1	1	3	1	1										9
Government Office	1	3	1													5
Grocery Supermarket	2				2	5		1		1		41	5			57
Hospital							12		1					7		20
Hotel Motel			4	3							3				2	12
Jail Prison											1					1
Jewelery Store												1				1
Liquor Store			3													3
Multiple Dwelling	23	41	36	19	33	11	12		6	31	25	4	12	4	3	260
Other Building	2		3	1					1	1		5	1			14
Other Business Offic	1		2	2		1				1		1				8
Other Commercial Ser		1				1						2				4
Other Outside Locati	1	3	2	1	3	1	1	3	1	2		1	2	1		22
Other Public Access			2				1				2	1				6
Other Residential		1	2		1											4
Other Retail Store	1		1	2							3	12	1			20
Park Playground		1		1		3					3					8
Parking Garage			3													3
Parking Lot	4	9	13	4	4	5	2	3	2	1	16	9	10			82
Professional Office	1		4			2	1		1		1					10
Public Transit Vehic	1	1	1			2							1			6
Rental Storage Facil		1														1
Residential Facility		3	1	2								2				8
Restaurant		2				4	2				3	3			1	15
School		1	1										7			9
Shopping Mall												2				2
Single Family Home	10	5	5	8	8	7	2	4	7	13	10	1	7	9	1	97
Sporting Goods												1				1
Street	18	24	38	12	31	26	10	3	10	24	29	5	14	2		246
Transit Facility		1	3		1							1				6
Unknown			1													1
Variety Convenience	2	6	3	3	5	5	1		1	1	5	2				34
Yard	1	1	1						1	2	2				1	9
Total	75	113	144	68	92	85	53	16	33	80	110	125	62	24	8	1088

Here is a breakdown of street crime by Ward. No street crime was reported in Ward 15, so it was not included on the table.

Ward	Aggravated Assault	Larceny	Motor Vehicle Larceny	Robbery	Total
1	3	9	3	3	18
2	7	11	2	4	24
3	9	22	1	6	38
4	1	8		3	12
5	13	11	2	5	31
6	2	16		8	26
7	1	7	1	1	10
8		3			3
9	2	6	2		10
10	2	19	1	2	24
11	9	14	2	4	29
12		4	1		5
13	1	12		1	14
14	1			1	2
Total	51	142	15	38	246

Albany does not release crime statistics by Ward. By they do release a 90 day report of all Unified Crime Reporting system and Election Districts are public data. Join them together, and you got Crimes by Ward in Albany.

April 13, 2017 Night

Good evening! I was sitting out back for a while looking at the stars but it started to get cold. Now I’m back inside, in my bedroom next to my American flag lit by camp lamp. That flag is enormous in my apartment. It looks nice but will be even nicer in the woods next week. I’m a Proud American. Partly clear and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 35 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2016, it got down to 31 degrees under clear skies. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1973.

Waning Gibbous Moon tonight with 82% illuminated. The Last Quarter Moon is on Wednesday night with chance of showers expected. The Full “Flower” Moon is in 4 weeks. The sun will rise at 6:15 am with the first light at 5:46 am, which is one minute and 38 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 10 hours and 37 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow, Good Friday, will be sunny, with a high of 64 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon. Sounds like it’s going to be a pretty nice day. A year ago, we had sunny skies and a high of 58 degrees. The record high of 83 was set in 1968. 1.4 inches of snow fell back in 1950.

For Saturday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 63. Light south wind increasing to 11 to 16 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 44 at 9pm.

On Easter, a slight chance of showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 55 at 8pm.

Typical average high for the weekend is 58 degrees.

It wasn’t a terrible day but it was rather chaotic at times. I think I made it through the day okay but there was a few brushes against disaster but I think I’ll be fine. I need to push back politely with people when they become too demanding on things. I don’t always have to take calls too or answer emails right away.

I have Good Friday off which is good because I’m tired after this week. I want to work on wiring up the truck cap and the rest of the things set up and tested for camping this week. I will probably go grocery shopping on Monday and maybe leave Tuesday after work or maybe hold off for Wednesday. I’m undecided.

I was noticing how green the grass has gotten in both Delmar and in the city. Some trees are starting to blossom, but no leaves except on some of that awful, invasive honeysuckle that tends to take over in all scrubby places in the woods along the roadsides. Spring will come to the Albany-area eventually. We had some sun for a while, then it clouded up and cleared for dusk.

While models of the Southern Adirondack snow pack show significant snow in parts of the Southern Adirondacks, with the weekends rains and warmer temperatures, it’s expected to be almost entirely gone. That said, already the North Country is free of snow, and most of the Adirondacks should be melted by the time I get up there. But I don’t want to get far off blacktop this time of year, especially with the rain, as everything is probably mud and muck. April camping kind of sucks this time of year, with all of the mud. Plus I expect it to be fairly cold and wet at least from Thursday into Friday. Well, I know to proceed slowly, and get out and walk the road before I drive it if there is any question. I’m not getting stuck in the mud. Buck no!

I’m thinking on Wednesday or Thursday, hitting up Horseshoe Lake for a night, and maybe hiking back to Lows Ledge. The rough but asphalt NY 421 is plowed all the way back to Horseshoe Lake, although the road to Hitchens Pond is closed for the spring mud season. The snow is gone up there from the map but you never know with drifts. It’s been a number of years since I’ve been up that way, and it would be fun to explore. Off-season I probably have my choice of sites on Hitchens Pond, and if I paddle from Horseshoe Outlet to Hitchens Pond, it could be quite nice. But it might also have things blocking the way, so I might avoid it due to water that is still pretty cold.

Later in the week into the weekend I’m thinking about the Deer River area in Malone if the road is passable. I don’t remember it being soft but if it looks risky I’m not going to try it. There are other places to explore and fish. Fishing the Deer River though kind of excites me. Such a beautiful part of the state, mostly unknown around here. As I noted yesterday, might camp at the Walter Pratt area. I think I would prefer that as I have better cell reception there and those campsites have outhouses and picnic tables. There are some state forests like Wolf Lake State Forest, I’d love to see in St. Lawrence County. The power project and paddling part of the St. Lawrence River might be fun too. Then maybe come back through the Black River Valley and camp in the Otter Creek area, assuming the road is open this time of year. I should call the DEC in Lowville on Monday to find out. I’m thinking that Eatonville Road is probably still very soft this time of year if it’s open at all. Maybe I should plan to come back through the Adirondacks and camp somewhere there like Jones Pond.

In four weeks on May 11 the sun will be setting at 8:07 pm, which is 31 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 75 and 40 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 46 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 1911.

Looking ahead, the Start of June is in 7 weeks. Lots of weeks of Black Fly Season ahead.

December 14, 2016 Evening

Good evening! Mostly clear and 27 degrees in Albany. There is a west-southwest breeze at 8 mph. The frigid air is coming but it’s not here yet. Don’t worry, it’s still coming.

Tonight will have some scattered snow showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with temperatures dropping throughout the night with a low of 14 degrees expected around 6am. Seven degrees below normal. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 42 degrees with periods of rain. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1874.

Waning Gibbous Moon tonight with 91% illuminated. The moon will . The Last Quarter Moon will be tonight with partly cloudy skies expected. The Full “Wolf” Moon is on Wednesday night.

Tomorrow will have some widely scattered snow showers, mainly after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high of 21 degrees at 11am. 15 degrees below normal. So the mercury will move up very slightly. Wind chill values as low as -1. Breezy, with a west wind 14 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Albany cops should sit in heated police cruisers and mail God speeding tickets for his wind downtown. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had rain and a high of 61 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2015. 8.2 inches of snow fell back in 1968. We got the cold, now God just needs to push some moisture northward. Maybe Saturday? I don’t like weekend snow storms because they impact my weekend plans.

Why can’t it only snow on week days? God, I may be one of the few people with such an attitude.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap but not as snowy as first expected. Saturday, snow before 1pm, then rain. High near 37. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday, rain likely before 1pm, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 60%.Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.

In four weeks on January 11 the sun will be setting at 4:43 pm, which is 20 minutes later then tonight. A least the sunsets are later. In 2016 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 37 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 14 degrees. Coldest time of the year. The record high of 57 degrees was set back in 1975.

Been trying to develop some new and interesting content for the blog lately. I downloaded some new Shapefiles for making small scale maps showing the entire country for the blog today, and also got county level data relating to the US Presidental Election. Lots of maps and analytics coming on that. Albany County still hasn’t posted final Election Results from 2016, so I can’t make pretty county level maps.

Tonight I’m going down to the library to work on a few more projects and continue to research winter jackets. Maybe make up a few more maps although I still have quite a few ready to go. Probably skipping the evening walk tonight as it’s going to be much too cold.

I probably should go out shopping tonight to get the ingredients I need for cooking for the holiday brunch at work but alas that will likely get held off until tomorrow because I’m a procrastinating. Hopefully Big Red will start in the cold.

Put the digital TV box in a separate extension cord, so hopefully it will be plugged in and tape the PBS News hour every night. The converter box only uses a few watts when it’s shut off.

December 3, 2016 9 AM Update

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Three weeks until Christmas Eve. Four weeks to New Years Eve. Partly cloudy and 40 degrees in Delmar. Clearing out a bit but today is expected to be fairly cool and cloudy. There is a northwest breeze at 14 mph. You can hear it roaring around with the gusts. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 42 degrees at 1pm. One degree above normal. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. Times with some sun, other times more clouds. It’s that wind that gets you. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 49 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 2009. 5.2 inches of snow fell back in 1893.

I was dead tired last night, so I didn’t go out to the bar or post any updates. Went to bed around 8:30 and didn’t get up until seven. Made a nice omlet in the oven with more veggies and mushrooms then eggs or cheese.

I seriously thought about going up to the Adirondacks today, and spending the night up off of Route 8 and then hiking Crane Mountain or Hadley Mountain come morning. But with mostly cloudy skies expected and a cold wind, I decided against that. Vermont’s weather is even worse. Maybe next weekend but then the mercury is expected to be much lower with the cold front pushing in. But if we have sunny skies and less wind it might actually be better conditions for camping and hiking. Regular season ends next Sunday, so I’ll have the woods to myself bar some of the muzzleloader guys and trappers.

This weekend I’m also on call for Sunday so it would suck if I got called in and had to rush back from the Adirondacks, and shower then head into work wearing the suit. I really hope to avoid going in on Sunday because it’s the State Christmas tree lighting and parking downtown will be a bitch, especially with the last Route 18 departing around 6:30 on Sunday.

The sun will set at 4:21 pm with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 12 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 13 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 13 seconds over yesterday.

There is definitely a lot of winter left to get out and enjoy the Adirondacks and other parts of the wilderness. Next weekend will be cold but it might be half decent with the sunshine. I do need to fix the truck cap lighting and one of the power ports in the truck among other things.

I should check the oil, and I’m thinking of installing a battery low voltage shut off and possibly replacing the accessory battery which should have a longer life than two years if it’s not draining down below safe levels in the future. That inverter is rough on batteries when I let the voltage get too low. The auto shutoff should fix that and reduce the load on the alternator to boot. It automatically will disconnect load when the battery drops below 50% or 12.1 volts. That should greatly prolong battery life

Need to get to Sears today or tomorrow to buy more Oxford shirts. Been on my list for some time but I didn’t feel like going anywhere this week. Also need to get a winter jacket. Maybe today. I know my size, I could order online. Or maybe I’ll look at Supershoes this afternoon. They have a good Carharrt collection.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. In 2015, it got down to 35 degrees with periods of rain. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1940. Brr.

I noticed how noisy my new laptop is at times. I was concerned that something was broken internally but apparently it is normal for the fan in HD laptops to make a fair amount of noise at higher temperaturesper the Internet. I quiets down when the load is taken off, and really isn’t noticeable except in a quiet bedroom. I thought about getting a service contract but in reality most of them are rip offs, especially when laptops are so inexpensive and I am somewhat handy with laptop repair.

As previously noted, there are 4 weeks until New Years Eve when the sun will be setting at 4:32 pm with dusk at 5:04 pm. On that day in 2015, we had rain and temperatures between 43 and 37 degrees. Wasn’t a really nice day in my memory. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1895.

Going to try upgrading to the nightly build of QGIS to see if that makes my map making script work perfectly. Otherwise it’s fine as it is. I may start to finally post new maps today. I got a bunch of Vermont Election data which I might start mapping soon. Albany County has yet to release election data from the most recent election, but I’ll be fascinated to see how Donald Trump did in the hilltowns and suburbs.

January 3, 2016 evening

Good evening! Currently 37 degrees and cloudy this evening. It cleared out for a while this evening before dusk, but the clouds have returned with the approaching front. We are expecting some snow showers later this evening that might make the roads slippery.

Tomorrow starts the new work week for the new year. Five day work-week. January seems to have come so quickly, without the harsh weather we’ve gotten use to. Tomorrow is going to be cold, with temperatures around 20 degrees all day. A stiff breeze will make windchills appear below zero, but the mercury will be at least in the positive single digits. It will feel cold though. Not as cold as late February and early March last year, with temperatures in the morning in the negative 10 degree range. Last year was so bitterly cold, but we might once again get some of that cold, but not this week.

Did you notice how late the sunset was tonight? Or more properly, how late darkness came once civil twilight came to an end? Civil twilight tonight was at 5:06 PM, so when you get out of work at 5 PM, it won’t be totally dark out. That’s nice. Sunset is at 4:34 PM in Albany, and even later in later parts of the state. Not having clouds dominating the sky sure made it seem like the day was a lot longer today. With the colder weather of Monday and Tuesday plus the clear weather expected through Thursday, nicer days and later sunsets will be the norm. I’m sure glad for that.

Where did the time go? It seems like it just wasn’t early fall. Certainly it can’t be 2016 already. Then ago the lack of snow plus that Big Buddy Heater I’ve been able to camp until last week – and I’ll be camping next weekend or the weekend after, once my truck is back from repair and the weather is not too cold or snowy. It will be like a winter without winter, which is kind of nice. Granted, I can’t get back far in the Adirondacks from a plowed state highway but I still can spend nights in the wilderness, toasty by the Big Buddy and with bright light with my lantern. Local wilderness camping or in a lean-to is a possibility too – I have my mind on a particular spot in the woods where I want to set up camp. Spring will approach quickly. My winters are usually quickly consumed by the long days I put in at work. Four weeks and we’ll be in the first weekend of February. Eight weeks the time changes. But for sure, in the mean-time we will have some snowy and cold weather, even if El Nino keeps us relatively warm for most of the winter.

Pretty quiet day, although I did make some maps up in QGIS. I had a problem in QGIS that took a while to diagnosis – somehow I had a layer that was malfunctioning, but now it working correctly. I cranked out a batch of maps, including Google Maps of most of the competitive races in the County Legislature. At this point, I’m pretty much done with mapping Election Results at least until after primary day – although maybe I could get some of the old LATFOR data from 2008 and so an interactive primary map comparing Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama. I think the next time I’m down at the library, I will have to get some more census data, although honestly on that front of running a bit thin on data to map too. Maybe some historical data might be interesting.

In the afternoon, I almost wish I had gone down to the park rather then the library, it was so nice. But whatever. Nicer days will certainly come, once we get past the coldest week of the year – typically next week. I do look forward to going to the park with a book from the library and reading to dusk or beyond. Or even just bringing my laptop down there, and playing on the WI-FI. Library Internet is fine, but I sure prefer to be outside when it’s nice. I wonder if they’ll even operate the ice rink at the town park this year, with the weather being so mild all winter. Below freezing temperatures are bound to come. This is Albany and winter, after all.

After this mild winter, it means there will likely be some hot and toasty summer days. I can feel the potholers already on a 90 degree day. I sure love those waterfalls on a hot day, and camping up by the East Canada Creek in the summer. It really is my home away form home. Summer nights are really quite wonderful, even if they last such a short time. It really can’t be a hot enough day for time in the potholers, although an extended drought I guess could really sap those waterfalls compared to more normal water conditions. I am also looking forward to heading out to the Finger Lakes for summer vacation, with hot days going in out of the pool at Watkins Glen. 2015 was an amazing year, and I hope to build upon it this year.

Have a great evening! I’m off for my evening walk.

Andy Arthur.org

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