Bennett Hill Preserve

This 155 acre property was a gift of Dr. Jerry Bilinski of North Chatham in 1998 to the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy. The hill towers over Clarksville, and stands only a short distance from the base of the Helderberg Escarpment. Although the top of the hill is only 400 feet above the surrounding land, it offers striking views of the Helderbergs to the north and west, and Albany to the east.

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In Four Weeks on September, 5, 2021

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In Four Weeks …

In four weeks on September 5 the sun will be setting in the west (280°) at 7:23 pm,🌄 which is 43 minutes and 57 seconds earlier then today. In 2020 on that day, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 78 and 57 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 2018.

The Labor Day Weekend will be coming to a close, and with September 7th it will be back to working downtown five days a week. 👨🏻‍🏫The pandemic is rearing its ugly head again 👾but it seems like with masks on transit and crowded places, being vaccinated nothing is likely to detour going back to the old way of doing things.

One Year Ago During the Week of August 8

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Last year …

On Sunday 08/09/20 we had humid and mostly sunny 🌞 with high of 85 and a low of 64, which is two degrees above normal.

On Monday 08/10/20 we had hot 🌞, humid 🌞, partly sunny 🌞 and thunderstorm 🌩 with high of 87 and a low of 64, which is four degrees above normal.

On Tuesday 08/11/20 we had hot 🌩, humid 🌩 and mostly sunny 🌞 with high of 87 and a low of 66, which is four degrees above normal.

On Wednesday 08/12/20 we had humid 🌞, mostly sunny 🌞 and patches of fog 🌞 with high of 83 and a low of 62, which is normal.

On Thursday 08/13/20 we had humid 🌞 and mostly sunny 🌞 with high of 84 and a low of 60, which is a degree above normal.

On Friday 08/14/20 we had partly sunny 🌞 with high of 83 and a low of 61, which is a degree above normal.

On Saturday 08/15/20 we had partly sunny 🌞 with high of 82 and a low of 60, which is normal.

Good Evening – August 8, 2021

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Good evening! Decided to do a Sunday evening hike to Bennett Hill after visiting the folks. 🚶🏻

Buggy up top of the hill, I’m a bit surprised as there was a better breeze down below. 🐜
Mostly clear and 75 degrees at the Bennett Hill Preserve. There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends Saturday around 2 pm. 😓

Popular place up here, and not just for the mosquitoes. 👪 I thought I’d have the whole place to my self but no such luck. Still not a half bad way to end the weekend.

I do wish I had gone out to Schoharie for the weekend 🏊🏻‍♂️ as summer is short and the weekend was fairly nice but I’m just still unpacking and unwinding from vacation and come Wednesday I’m going to the Adirondacks I think. Saved forty or so bucks between food 🍲 and gas ⛽ by staying close to home and just doing the bus 🚍 thing to Thacher Park.

I like the hike up Bennett Hill and looking at the heifers at Meadow Brook South Farm and it has cooled off a bit as the evening progressed. 🌃 I also like driving past my parents neighbors the homesteaders and looking at what they are doing with their 10 acres. 🐽 🐮 🐔 Might not be pretty but they’re helping to make a life off the land. Rural poverty, trailer trash? I guess you could say it but it’s also a life closer to the land than how so many live it in the suburbs.

Swampy Area On Top

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While the trails where well routed and slightly muddy, there certainly where pools of standing water on top of the mountain from all of the rain of recent.

Sunday April 17, 2011 — Bennett Hill Preserve