My three nights are done at this campsite. ⛺ I’m undecided if I will head down to Stewart Landing or head up to Powley Place though I admit my mind is made up for the later as I’m not ready to head back to civilization where there is cell 📱 service, email 📧 and news 📰 all around. I’ve been quite happy 😊 not having a working radio 📻 this weekend.
If I go to Powley Place I think 🤔 I would prefer campsite 10 out in the Plains but if not available then the bridge site. Or maybe I want the bridge site so I can kayak 🛶 and tube directly from the site. Not a lot of solar power opportunity there due to the trees but I’m not sure how sunny it’s going to be but I’m hoping it clears out so I can look at the vast starry 🤩 skies from there.
I might hike back to Goldmine Stream Falls this afternoon to get my steps 👣 in and enjoy the solitude by the falls. One of my favorite things is just a quiet walk 🚶 through the woods on a dirt road with gentile hills where I can enjoy nature.
Just one more night 🌃 before I have to return to the craziness of it all 🤪, legislative session included on Tuesday but I’d rather not focus on that or how many urgent emails 📧 will be in my box come Monday afternoon. I want to take down camp before the rain tomorrow but I’m quite okay spending as much time as possible at the Potholers 🏊 before the sunny and warm conditions turn to thunderstorms and rain. ⛈️
As none of my undershirts and boxers fit now that I’ve lost so much weight, and being it’s a session day Tuesday and Wednesday, 🩲 I’m thinking I might just buy more underwear as I’m going to need it rather than go to laundromat as I think otherwise I should be okay for a four day week. Plus my oversized clothes are wearing out and the remaining good stuff I have I’ll have as extra for summer vacation to avoid having to go to the laundromat on vacation. 🏖 It’s embarrassing how sometimes I feel my boxes sliding down loose in my pants. 👖
Not a lot of rain today though enough that I needed the rain coat 🧥 when I walked up to Powley Place. None of rain was heavy, it was mostly showers and not all day. Mid morning though was cool, I actually nodded off for a while listening to a podcast over the warmth of the propane heater. ♨️ Fortunately thought I didn’t fall on the heater.
We had a bit of sun and blue skies both in the morning and evening, though not a lot. But it was everything I expected and I had lots of time read 📖 besides the ten 🔟 miles I walked today mostly along Piseco Powley Road.
I went for my morning walk about a half hour later then normal and noticed how busy the traffic. I thought it would be interesting to bring up the traffic records locally to see how many cars were moving at rush hour.
Not a lot of sun though you could see it peaking ☀ through the clouds as I was floating in the tube ⭕ in the East Canada Creek. Then it clouded up again but at least I had a chance to get cleaned up a bit and some time floating down the river.
No-see-ums were biting like crazy this morning 🐜 that I pretty much rushed into the screen tent 🎪. That said it was fine, I spent my breakfast and then after in the tent. Sprinkles 🌧️ kept me from setting up the hammock today.
I am a bit chilled through 🥶 from floating in the tube but I have the heater to warm myself up. ♨️ I have a full tank of propane so I don’t have to worry about running out.
I plan to read 📖 some today, listen to podcasts 🔊 and do some hiking along the East Canada Creek. Maybe hike all the way to Powley Place, though that’s a pretty good distance and I don’t want to get too far from camp should the sky really open up. Often just sitting by the Potholers makes me happy 😊, the falls provide solitude.
Might not be the nicest summer day, but I’m glad I’m away from it all, with not even a radio 📻 to deliver the bad news 📰 back to the back country. My selection of podcasts and downloaded videos is far better than any crap I’d be listening to on the news.
Rain started around 6 o’clock ☔ when I was walking back from my hike to House Pond, which I bushwhacked along the Brandy Brook to the Old Edick Road snowmobile trail. While the bushwhack wasn’t difficult, the Brandy Brook is hardly even a brook and didn’t have any particularly interesting waterfalls. Mostly just very conventional low land Adirondack woods, not many old growth trees back there.
Read 📖 for a few hours in the hammock, mostly the book I got about bicycles 🚲 and their repair. I guess I’m learning something from the book, a lot of it is about the physics of bicycles and the chemistry of the metals used to make up their frames. I guess I never thought how scientific bicycles are.
I was going to swim 🏊♂️ this afternoon, or more likely float in the tube ⭕ and fir a short while the sun came out and was quite delightful but then more clouds 🌥️ pushed in, the wind picked up and my mind was changed.
Black flies were horrendous and I was quite happy to hide out under the bug net I use with my hammock. 🐜 It works good but it does feel kind of claustrophobic when your surrounded by such a little screen. Basically when I wasn’t under the bug screen in the hammock I was in the screen tent 🎪 or applying DEET although out hiking wasn’t so bad.
Then laying back in the hammock🤦 I turned left and somehow pulled a muscle in my neck and now hurts when I turn too far to the left, especially if I am looking left and up. It just hurts hard when I do that. 🥲Looking right or turning my neck the other way is fine but I’m thinking if I don’t recover it’s going to make merging on the expressway a challenge though I think I can do like I did coming out here and take the local roads home. I’m sure I’ll recover fine on my own or I’ll be calling my new doctor 📞 come Tuesday. 🧑⚕️
