After this week being so cold and icy, everything now is turning to mud. The road near the campsite has a section that was all ice a day ago, now it’s turned to a deep mud puddle. Fortunately the other direction doesn’t seem so bad as it’s sloped. While there was six inches of snow here last weekend, the ground never froze below the snow and ice, and now that the weather has gotten well above freezing its all turned to mush. While I was careful to leave Big Red parked on a gravel lot, the once snow and ice covered campsite by tomorrow certainly will be all mud. But I plan to leave pretty early tomorrow and I’ll try to minimize my trips trampling the ground.
Americans are one of the few developed countries that uses toilet paper too. Toilet paper is kind of useful when you have an outhouse but rather silly and wasteful if you have running water. The same can be said about paper towels.
The Watkins Glen Library is on school property. Which means I have to park on street. Which is fine, but of course, it’s odd/even parking in the winter based on the day of the week. So I had to move my truck to the other side of the street. Which was annoying.
Earlier today hiked back to Lucifer Falls at Robert Robert H. Treman State ParkRobert H. Treman State Park Treman State Park. Also hiked the CCC trail. Then drove one of my favorite stretches of highway, NY 13 through the Newfield Valley. I just like the wide valley, nice looking hills. Poked around Montour Falls, hiked up the bridge, then did the north rim trail at Watkins Glen. Many of those photos were shot with my camera so I’ll post them later. Sitting now on the jetty at the Watkins Glen village park out on Seneca Lake, thinking about heading back into town, killing time at the library on the internet then heading back to Montour Falls to see the lights at dusk as it looks really decked out for the holidays. I’ll head back to camp around 5:30, then cook dinner and start a fire, so I can enjoy the final night of the December road trip. Between the sun and driving I should have sufficient power for tonight. Tomorrow morning I’ll take down camp and start head back home, hopefully by dusk.
Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Next Friday is First Day of Winter ☃️. Partly cloudy and 34 degrees in Hector. ⛅ There is a south breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. At times you can really hear the wind whipping around, but its really quite mild this morning.
Today is my final full day in the Finger Lakes, tomorrow I plan to take down camp fairly early in the morning and head home.🏡 It’s remarkable to think a week has come and gone so quickly. Now that it’s finally warmed up, I expect everything to be melting away quickly.💧
Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 43 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around November 28th. South wind 14 to 16 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1901. 12.5 inches of snow fell back in 1956.❄
Today I’m thinking about hiking back to Lucifer Falls then visiting Montour Falls and Watkins Glen and possibly doing some of the rim trail,🏃 although with the warmer temperatures and the normal humidity in the glen I doubt it will look like a winter wonderland.
The sun will set at 4:34 pm with dusk around 5:06 pm, which is 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ andtemperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 26 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a slight chance of rain after 8pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 37 degrees at 1am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around October 26th. Southwest wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1874.
As previously noted, next Friday is First Day of Winter ☃️ when the sun will be setting at 4:37 pm with dusk at 5:09 pm. On that day in 2017, we had snow, mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 32 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1957.
