Day: April 7, 2026

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Sacandaga Primitive Area – Whitehouse Campsites

The DEC recently GPS'd the various designated campsites at Whitehouse area of the Sacanadaga Primitive Area along West River Road in Wells. This provides a pretty accurate map of the various campsite locations. West River Road isn't open to motor vehicles yet, but will open later in May once the frost is out of the ground and the dirt road isn't too soft.

 Sacandaga Primitive Area - Whitehouse Campsites

A dusting for the ride in

A dusting falls on heavy, sodden snow,
Yet onward through the slush I mean to go.
The trail is wet, a dark and sodden track,
But nothing holds this spinning spirit back.

Along the trail, the greening grass creeps through,
Waking up to drink the frozen dew.
The Normans Kill is rising with a roar,
As winter runoff thunders past the shore.

The air is sharp, a bite against the skin,
Yet lacks the iron bite where frost crept in.
I’d rather burn the fat than fossil fuel,
And leave the SuperDuty, parked and cool.

No gas to buy, no bus fare in the tray,
Just wind and grit to find a better way.
Though blustery clouds may grey the ride back home,
I’m richer for the miles I reclaimed alone.

I guess they better tune up that OGS Steam Plant in Albany, it’s snowing out in April šŸŒØļø

I guess technically the snow the steam plant produces is usually black in color, but it’s still kind of that unusual April snow, though it’s not sticking to the pavement in Delmar, and supposed to warm up but get very windy by afternoon.

Perfect weather for riding my bike to work, 🚲 actually the snow stopped a few minutes ago, though I’ll probably get somewhat wet riding in. Better make sure I have those other set of socks 🧦 in my office desk when I get to Assembly’s World Data Headquarters. A very unhappy looking Mourning Dove šŸ•Šļø is peering in my window (what a pervert!), looking down on the rather white grass from the dusting of wet snow we got a few minutes ago. Honestly, I just don’t want to have to deal with the CDTA App now that my Navigator card šŸ’³ is expired. Or the protestors at the Capitol. Wind is expected to be roaring by afternoon. šŸŒ¬ļø If it’s too bad I can catch a bus home, but it’s usually not too bad in the hollow riding back.

Yesterday was a Monday and I was surprisingly tired 😫 all day at work, but I kept pushing on. Only one more majority district to update. šŸ“‚ The two supervisors were out, so I was managing everything besides my other normal responsibilities as director. I was asleep last night I don’t know around 7:30 PM as it was cold, šŸ›ļø and I was tired. Stopped at Hannaford on my bike ride home, got milk, and two impulse purchases – edmame and spinach. I do like edmame, I was told you’re not supposed to eat the shells, but I do as I like to maximize the fiber in my diet. But I also eat the skins on potatoes šŸ„” and sometimes bananas šŸŒ. It helps move the crap through your pooper, šŸ’© and fills your stomach without a lot of calories. The world is built on manure. Stanton’s got their tanks of cow shit 🐮 rolling down past my parents house, as they prepare the fields for spring. I remember walking home, 🚶 ducking off the road and plugging my noise as they came rolling down the road, spewing diesel smoke and flakes of cow poop off tanker trucks.

It will be interesting to see how much gas prices go up today, ⛽ with the Trumpster threatening to blow up the bridges and power plants in Iran šŸ‡®šŸ‡· as part of his war criming scheme, that nobody seems to understand outside of the President’s form of public masterbastion. I guess it feels good and is groovy. I was too busy holding the multiple hats šŸŽ© at work yesterday to research and build truck caps, I think I will most likely go with an ARE Cap assuming that Ruth’s thinks I can take delivery before July. Kind of a bad time of year to get one built, as I’m sure it’s their busy time, but I couldn’t order one until I was šŸ’Æ percent sure of what truck I was going to get. The operators at work were asking when I would take the SuperDuty to work. See the first sentence of this paragraph, plus I want to keep it new as long as possible. Plus driving a SuperDuty in traffic doesn’t sound like much fun, as the 6.8L rumbles and slurps down fuel – it’s not Godzilla but it’s still an HD truck.