Today if you went Downtown you would be hard pressed to find much of the Beaver Kill or Beaver Creek. Most of it is buried in the Big C Pipe, although they are proposing to daylight part of it in Lincoln Park during the coming years. Probably the best place to see it would be in what is now Washington Park Lake.
Data Source: 1866 Beers Map of Albany from the New York Public Library, georefrenced, traced and overlaid on a contemporary aerial photo and LIDAR hillshade.
People often dream of a more accessible waterfront in Albany, but the truth is even in the 40s and 50s, there wasn't a lot of access to the river as this 1952 aerial photo shows.
It’s tough to return back into the routine, especially when you get back at 9:15 PM at night because you were out riding and exploring Canajoharie and other Mohawk Valley hick towns before driving back through Rural Grove.
I am well aware that NY 162 is closed, 🚧 though you can sneak by the road closure over Old Spraker’s Hill Road, despite the local traffic only sign. I bet the residents along that road aren’t happy with all the traffic winding back and forth over theirr hill, not taking the official detour which adds miles to the trip.
Most of my gear is packed away, 💼 and at this point based on the forecast it doesn’t seem likely I’ll be getting out of town, though who knows I could still end up hammock camping. ⛺ Things could certainly change, I am more then willing to consider a trip up to the Green Mountains this weekend. I figure get away while it’s nice.
Last summer, New Mexico state special agents inspecting a farm found thousands more cannabis plants than state laws allow. Then on subsequent visits, they made another unexpected discovery: dozens of underfed, shell-shocked Chinese workers.
The workers said they had been trafficked to the farm in Torrance County, N.M., were prevented from leaving and never got paid.
“They looked weathered,” says Lynn Sanchez, director of a New Mexico social services nonprofit who was called in after the raid. “They were very scared, very freaked out.”
They are part of a new pipeline of migrants leaving China and making unauthorized border crossings into the United States via Mexico, and many are taking jobs at hundreds of cannabis farms springing up across the U.S.
It doesn’t feel like a year since I last camped up here at Piseco-Powley. True, probably the last time I was at House Pond Campsite was 10 months ago but it seems more like a few weeks ago then last summer. Certainly doesn’t feel like a year.
Then again, I started coming up to Piseco-Powley with great regularity starting the summer of 2011, so this would be my 13th summer spending many a hot and a few rather cold nights up here like that weekend after Thanksgiving in 2020. I was 28 when I started coming and I’m 41 now.
