I love people's shock that they use cinders on the roads for deicing. They've used them at least since the early-1800s, just like they've used salt brine from natural gas wells for hundred years. But people who ride so high on their horses, can't see the road from their vantage point.
A good weekend of snowshoeing and outdoor adventure, even if Sunday was a bit nippy and Saturday was somewhat cloudy.
Left my camera home so no pictures of Thacher Park, but I did get some pictures of Schodack Island State Park, before I upset one my contacts and couldn’t see much of all, and had to limp back to my truck.
I am actually running low on contacts, and despite all my delays, I really need to schedule an appointment with some eye doctor – which because I always delay, I will probably end up seeing another guy in a cardboard box on the roadside to get my vision checked, and they will give me a prescription that I can’t really see out of the glasses. I really should plan things out a little better.
Snowshoed at Schodack Island State Park, and for the first time in a long-time cross-country skied at Thacher Park. At Thacher Park, I went from Ryan Road up to the Nature Center via that trail that crosses private land on an easement. It was nice to do some sking, and it’s much faster and easier on the shins then snowshoes, especially with warm sticky snow.
The next time I go to Schodack Island State Park, I will use skis rather then snowshoes. With the sticky snow of Saturday, I kept hitting my shins with the front of the snowshoes, which started to hurt after a while.
This truly has been exceptionally cold and snowy winter unlike ones we've experienced recently. That said, they've only had ice cover records for the Great Lakes since a satellite starting tracking that in 1973 (41 yrs ago).
It's a Monday after a weekend that was much too short. But we are moving in the right direction towards April and camping season.
Last week’s long week lead to a weekend that came and gone much too fast. And now we are up an earlier for work with daylight savings time. Maybe this is a sign of spring, at least after the mid-week blizzard or snowstorm or rain, whatever the ultimate forecast works out to be.
A very gray and dark morning this morning. It wouldn’t have been that bad of start getting up an hour earlier, had the sun been out. Tomorrow is supposed to be a lot more sunny then today – and maybe a bit warm.
March is the busiest time at work for me, well except maybe for June and October. But it’s good to be busy during March as it makes the time go by faster. I will be glad when March is over an the nicer weather of April is upon us. I don’t expect much greening up until May at the earliest, but it does who we are well onto the way to the good weather of spring.