Day: July 28, 2025

Show Only ...
Maps - Photos - Videos

Colorized LiDAR, The Noses

|

The Noses of the Mohawk River are a break in the hills where the Mohawk River Runs. This is a scared site for many of the Native Americans and an important travel corridor since the Colonial era. Today, this natural passageway is crossed by the Erie Canal/Mohawk River, then to the north of the river two railroad tracks, a two-lane section of NY 5. To the south of the river is four lanes of the NYS Thruway (built on filled in portion of the Mohawk River), and two lanes of NY 5S. There also is the Mohawk Valley Welcome Center, brought there by the Thruway Authority and Power Authority. This site has not always been considered that sacred -- the Sprakers Unlined Landfill for Canjahoharie's waste from the 1960s to 1980s is located one portion of the bank mined away for travel, and much of the travel corridors through the valley are built on rubble through former marshlands.

Colorized LiDAR, The Noses

Choppy Waneta Lake

|

On the other side of the Lamoka-Wateka Canal is Wateka Lake. With the strong northerly breeze, the lake was very choppy with some white caps starting to appear. I didn't feel comfortable getting way out in the lake and the calmer parts of the lake is full of Milfoil.

Saturday July 29, 2017 — Sugar Hill State Forest

Shocked Bushing 🔧

|

So I called up Capital Region Truck Center and they can’t replace the shock bushing until after Labor Day. American Auto Glass that installed the lift kit is no longer around.

It’s fine, I can live with the rougher ride now that I know what the issue is. I feel better knowing I’m not going to loose a wheel, worse comes to worse I chew up the carrier bolt but it’s not to that point yet – it was much worse when I banged up going down to West Virginia in 2017 on that shit road back to County Bridge Campground in Pennsylvania and had to replace it. I’ll have to just deal with it on vacation, it’s not to the point where it’s really rattling yet. I looked and shock bushing is specifically a BDS part, so it’s not something standard my regular mechanic can get and install. Hell of it is it’s a 6 dollar part (literally, I just checked!) and like 15 minutes of labor with a torque wrench and it’s annoying with the slop but so be it.

I guess my alternatives is I could see I could order the part and see if my mechanic would install it. Or call Big Boys Toys in Johnstown which is the nearest BDS Dealer to see if they could do it. The thing is I probably can survive another month with it the way it is and probably it will be fine on vacation, even if it does start to rattle and be obnoxious. I don’t think it’s likely to have so much play that it damages the U-joint and similiar components.