After hiking back to Eagle Pond -- which actually I was confused on in the map and only got the swamp below Eagle Pond, I bushwhacked onto the ridge above the swamp and looked at the mountains to the north of the pond.
Saturday May 2, 2020 — East Branch Sacandaga River — Cod Pond Trailhead Camping Opporunities 🗺 — Eagle Pond Trail 🗺 — East Branch Gorge Trail 🗺 — East Branch Sacandaga River - NY 8 🗺 — Fox Lair Campsites 🗺— PDF with All Maps 📚
The Dunning Pond Trail, at least from NY 30 follows an old woods road is not maintained.
Sunday May 3, 2020 — Jessup River Wild Forest — Dunning Pond Trail 🗺
One of the hidden gems of American government is a small division of the Department of Energy called the Loan Programs Office. This is a government bank that hands out loans to companies with business plans that go beyond the technological frontier, with ideas nobody has tried before. Commercial banks will generally not loan to such companies—as a rule, private bankers want something that is already proven to work—so the LPO helps such entrepreneurs get from the drawing board to producing and selling an actual product.
The LPO has funded thousands of successful projects, from renewable-energy installations, to solar and battery factories, to new low-emission industrial processes, to power grid upgrades, to the first new nuclear power plant in decades, to domestic EV companies, and much more in that vein. It has virtually no overhead, with just a few hundred staffers running a fund of more than $400 billion. Almost all of these projects are successfully paying back their loans. For any government—and especially the American one, with its underfunded and sclerotic agencies—this counts as a smashing success.