Day: December 30, 2025💾

🗺️ Maps

Horseheads vs Corning, a size comparison

Horseheads is certainly more sprawling than Corning, as the prior is kind of a suburb of Elmira. Corning is compact also due to geography and the rather narrow valley its situated in. 

Map: Ireland

Corning Preserve 1952

Before Interstate 787 and the filling in of the Albany Yacht Club, much of Corning Preserve was the former railyards along the river.

Thematic Map: Lands of the Oneida Indian Nation

Trailhead Parking

While ultimately I parked in this lot, it worried me for a few minutes, because it was a layer of ice from freezing rain, under the layer of 4 inches of snow. I was worried about getting stuck.

Monday December 28, 2009 — Snake Mountain
Thematic Map: The fertile lands of the Black River Valley are Surounded by Tug Hill and Adirondacks
Terrain Map: Normans Kill Gorge LiDAR