Like most Black Fridays I’m heading north to camp 🏕️

Not hiking today as I want to get to camp and get set up before the wind picks up later and the chance of lake effect snow showers blowing west becomes too great.

Just a little more, go to the bathroom, then north I will head. ⬆️Taking the Northway rather then NY 30 as it’s likely to be snow free and your farther east so less chance of Lake Effect. I need to stop on the way up north to get more bananas 🍌 and more importantly milk. 🐮 I actually might be fine without bananas but I need milk for the coffee. Then I also need fuel as I have less then a 1/4 tank left.

Tomorrow honestly looks like the best day for hiking and riding, 🚲 so that is likely what I will spend the balance of tomorrow doing. Sunday looks cold and snowy but I will probably spend that day in camp. Monday I’ll break camp, hopefully without too much shoveling deep snow and ice, then head south. Supposed to not be so snowy on Monday, I’m thinking I’ll do some of the short hikes around Warrensburg and then drive home in the evening.

I got my 10 November borrows out on Hoopla 📚 along with a bunch of other books and audio books on Libby. Looking forward to having a lot of good listens and reads while I’m up north. While I usually wait to the last day of the month to get my monthly reads, I figure I may not have cell service until December 1st on Monday when I come home, and then I’ll have ten books/audio books to enjoy both at camp and the next 3 weeks. Then I can either get more books on Hoopla from my December borrows or Libby. I kind of feel guilty getting all these Hoopla borrows, realizing now that the library pays $1 to $3 per book you borrow to the publisher, but then again I do pay a lot in taxes 💰 and I do enjoy the reads. It’s actually not a terrible deal for the local library, as it’s likely cheaper to just rent the books that are rarely read compared to popular titles where it’s cheaper to get a number of licenses for people to read the individual book.

It will be great to be off the grid for a few days. 🔕 Things are too crazy 🤪 in America and I want time to read 📖 and think in the beauty and cold of the winter Adirondacks. There is so much to be upset about these days but it will be remote without even a FM radio. 📻 But the cold ❄️ and quiet will feel great.

Off to camp in the great frigid north! To see how this goes. It will be great!