Hawks Rock
Hawk Rock via Appalachian Trail is a 1.9 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near Duncannon, Pennsylvania that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate.
In Hope of Nice Weekend Weather
Maybe I’m just desperate for a nice weather weekend, or I wanted to practice my skills for work, but I created this quick little bash script that runs on the 29 and 59 minutes of each hour, so I get the latest NOAA forecast for the weekend, hot off the presses displayed on my screen for the weekend.
#!/bin/bash
wget "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.4686&lon=-73.9294&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=dwml" -O /var/tmp/forecast.xml
WEEKENDS=( Friday Saturday Sunday )
for WEEKEND in "${WEEKENDS[@]}"
do
DAY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath '/dwml/data/time-layout[2]/start-valid-time' | awk /$WEEKEND\"/'{print NR}')
DAY12=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath '/dwml/data/time-layout[1]/start-valid-time' | awk /$WEEKEND\"/'{print NR}')
DAY12NIGHT=$((DAY12+1))
HIGH=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "/dwml/data/parameters/temperature[@type=\"maximum\"]/value[$DAY]/text()" 2>/dev/null)
LOW=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "/dwml/data/parameters/temperature[@type=\"minimum\"]/value[$DAY]/text()" 2> /dev/null)
DAYSUMMARY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "string(/dwml/data/parameters/weather/weather-conditions[$DAY12]/@weather-summary)" 2> /dev/null)
NIGHTSUMMARY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "string(/dwml/data/parameters/weather/weather-conditions[$DAY12NIGHT]/@weather-summary)" 2> /dev/null)
[[ -z $HIGH ]] || OUTPUT+="\n $WEEKEND: "
[[ -z $HIGH ]] || OUTPUT+="$DAYSUMMARY $HIGH "
[[ -z $LOW ]] || OUTPUT+="/ $NIGHTSUMMARY $LOW"
done
notify-send "Weekend Weather Update" "$OUTPUT" -t 15000
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Center Of The Adirondack Park
The absolute center of the Adirondack Park (centroid) is 43.95039680083595, -74.283820885915 according to the shapefile put out by the Adirondack Park Agency of the Blue Line, which is on the northern shoulder of Fishing Brook Mountain, south of Winfall Mountain in the Town of Minerva (barely, just the corner that reaches up there).
https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.95039680083595,%20-74.283820885915
The point of inaccessibility (greatest distance from any part of the border) is about 3 miles south-west of that point at 43.88007470563294, -74.32116420377541, which is the about 1/3rd of the way up the south flank of Dun Brook Mountain in Town of Blue Mountain Lake.
https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.88007470563294,%20-74.32116420377541