Day: November 30, 2025

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Frosty Morning

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Walking along River Road, the plowed section before Thomas Road. It was pretty damp to start out the day with a mixature of rain, snow and ice the night before but came progressively nicer as the day went on.

Monday November 27, 2023 — Hudson River Special Management Area

Cario

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Cario and the NY 23/32 Bypass with some hillshade to show the terrain.

Ortho Cario

NYSDOT Rest Areas Across NY

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This helpful interactive map shows NYS DOT rest areas along the major interstates (excluding the New York Thruway) with bathrooms. A few of these rest areas are closed, but it will give you an idea which facilities are open. Tomorrow, I will do a map of Thruway Rest Stops. I was originally going to combine these into one map, but it turns out the DOT and Thruway Authority record information on their Rest Areas in a very different format.

Benford’s law – Wikipedia

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Benford’s law – Wikipedia

Benford's law, also called the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small.In sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford's law also makes predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.

A Boreal Wonderland along the Roosevelt Truck Trail

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A Boreal Wonderland along the Roosevelt Truck Trail

"The Roosevelt Truck Trail in Minerva is one of the most beautiful trails in the Adirondack Park. The road-sized path takes hikers through a lovely, mature boreal forest of spruce and balsam fir trees on a carpet of sphagnum moss. The 2.5 mile long trail has become a favorite hike during the annual Adirondack Birding Festival. Summer and winter field trips, co-sponsored by the Long Lake Parks and Recreation Department and Northern New York Audubon, are now regularly offered."

Largest Earthquakes to Hit NY State

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Largest Earthquakes to Hit New York State
Year Location Magnitude County Town
1944 8 km S of Cornwall, Canada 5.74 St. Lawrence Massena town
2002 8 km NNW of Au Sable Forks, New York 5.30 Clinton Black Brook town
1983 8 km WSW of Newcomb, New York 5.10 Essex Minerva town
1877 Adirondack region, New York 4.90 Franklin Franklin town
1897 Lake Champlain area, New York 4.70 Clinton Au Sable town
1929 5 km S of Corfu, New York 4.70 Genesee Darien town
1931 2 km SSW of Warrensburg, New York 4.70 Warren Warrensburg town
1944 6 km ESE of Cornwall, Canada 4.50 Franklin St. Regis Mohawk Reservation
1934 6 km WSW of Dannemora, New York 4.50 Clinton Saranac town
1853 Near Lowville, New York 4.50 Lewis Martinsburg town
1848 Near Tarrytown, New York 4.35 Westchester Mount Pleasant town
1857 Niagara County, New York 4.30 Niagara Royalton town
1867 East of Ogdensburg, New York 4.30 St. Lawrence Lisbon town
1966 3 km SE of Attica, New York 4.27 Wyoming Attica town
1975 6 km E of Altona, New York 4.20 Clinton Altona town
1928 7 km NNW of Paul Smiths, New York 4.10 Franklin Brighton town
1916 3 km SE of Galway, New York 4.10 Saratoga Galway town
Andy Arthur, 3/10/23.
Data Source: USGS Earthquakes. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/

Roosevelt Truck Trail

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The Roosevelt Truck Trail was built in the 1930s for forest fire suppression and provides a relatively flat, gated remote wilderness road for walking and exploring in remote country of the Adirondacks.