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29 days left in the year ⌛

Depending on how you count it, basically four weekends left if even that before we start the 2024 year. Going to be a busy year, but I am looking forward to the next chapter of my life working out in the suburbs, really putting my data science knowledge and experience to work in my new job. But first a rainy but mild weekend to get through and the holidays.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Not such a drag as I had Monday off and the rest of week was pretty busy, although Friday morning dragged a bit waiting for the next project to come in. Mostly cloudy and 37 degrees at the Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind.Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 4 am. ☃️

Started out my morning a little after 5 o’clock as I always do. ⏰ I’m not one to set an alarm but I wake up at that hour as I’m usually asleep before 9 PM and around then I have to get up and do the bathroom thing, 💩 so it’s best to get up and going and get a bright and early start on the morning. Decided to bake a breakfast cake this morning 🍰 — this time I started with food-processor milled oatmeal, whole wheat flour, stevia, two bananas, baking powder, canned pumpkin an egg, and some water and baking it. Topped it with lots of pumpkin pie spice. 🎃 It was pretty darn good, the egg and gluten from the whole-wheat flour made it very cake like and not so dry as often comes out when cooking with milled oatmeal. Plus some stomach-filling protein from the egg, and two types of fiber — insoluble fiber from the whole-wheat flour and pumpkin plus soluble fiber from oatmeal. ☕ I had to go to Stewart’s to get milk for the coffee but now this morning is a go.

Today will have a slight chance of showers between 10am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 47 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 22nd. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1998. 6.8 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄

I am going to take a wait and see approach to today 🌧 but if it looks like it’s going to remain just cloudy I might head up to the Albany Pine Bush for a bike / hike on some of the trails, 🚲 🚶‍♀️ and then head up to the Salvation Army to look at clothes, especially dressier things for work. 👔 I am though most likely going to have to just buy some dress shirts and pants for work 👨‍💼 as nothing I have really fits well anymore after loosing so much weight. Then I need to get spices and probably some other groceries at Walmart, though truth be told my pantry isn’t bad currently but I need more frozen fruit and vegetables, 🍓 🥦 along with the spices. Turmeric and ginger in particular but also some cinnamon and Chipotle would be good as I’m low on all those things. I don’t really have to go shopping, but at some point I do want to replenish my pantry and I hate to stay home all day. 🛒

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:46 am with sun having an altitude of 25.5° from the due south horizon (-45.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:39 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 18 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:31 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 18 seconds over today.

I haven’t decided to make bread or pea soup today. 🍞 That was originally the plan but I kind of forgot or was tired and cold after last night so after my salmon 🐟 for dinner, I had some Greek yogurt and pumpkin, 🎃 then settled down to bed 🛌 doing some more of the Udemy course 🎓 on machine learning and went to sleep. I might wait until Sunday evening to kneed and make more bread, and enjoy it fresh come Monday. Maybe the same thing with the pea soup. I do have kidney beans cooking down on the stove, so I could do beans and rice later, and I took both some previously cooked and frozen chickpeas and butternut squash out of the freezer. Also still have spaghetti squash in the fridge from earlier in the week I should eat before it goes bad. Maybe it’s best to save the bread until Monday. Pea soup is good but it can make me gassy, 😤 which is why I was thinking maybe better to have it during the weekend. Helps though if I make sure to drink plenty of water with it and avoid the shredded carrots 🥕 in the bread I’m serving with it.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 23rd. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of -1 occurred back in 1976.

The blog advertising pulled in $165 since September 23, 🤑 which isn’t too bad and will help me recoup at least some of the costs of the web hosting come a few weeks when finally the money is deposited in my bank. It looks like I will be earning roughly $75 a month going forward, getting paid every other month. By April, I should have recouped the hosting and domain costs from advertising, though some depends on ad rates which decline after the Christmas season and web traffic, 🕸 which always picks up during the summer months when people are looking for trails and places for camping. 🏕 I probably wouldn’t have done the advertising thing but I didn’t like the sting of the rising hosting bills a few months back, of which my bank account still hasn’t fully recovered.

I put in a FOIL request for the Recreation Unit Management Plan Shapefile with the DEC. 🏕 This would be nice for making maps, somebody asked for it a while back and I never was able to get them the file. Basically this shapefile includes the area covered unit plans, and I can’t find it online on an ArcGIS REST/Service or the DEC website. I don’t like doing too many FOIL requests 🏣 these days, as I don’t like my name all over government documents, but this would be useful to have, and could create many good maps and analysis for the blog 🗺 which could further drive traffic here. Come February 2024, I am also going to get the update voter file for the full state rather than just the county that I have now, 🗳 so I can use it for analysis, especially machine learning purposes to see if I can figure out new ways of targeting 🎯 voters.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Average High is 40 🌨 when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2022, we had sunny and temperatures between 39 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 40 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1966.

Sun Peaks Over Ashokan Range

There are 80 designated campsites in Cattaraugus County in following state forests

There are 80 designated campsites in Cattaraugus County in following state forests …

Campsite on West Hill Road

Cattaraugus County State Forest Maps

This listing provides the total number of campsites in each forest along with a link to map and photos of forest.

State Forest Map Number of Campsites
Boyce Hill State Forest 2
Bryant Hill State Forest 1
Bucktooth State Forest 1
Bush Hill State Forest 10
Cattaraugus State Forest 3
Dobbins Memorial State Forest 3
East Otto State Forest 14
Farmersville State Forest 2
Golden Hill State Forest 4
Mccarty Hill State Forest 4
Nine Mile Creek State Forest 3
Pine Hill State Forest 12
Raecher Hill State Forest 2
Rock City State Forest 11
South Valley State Forest 5
Windfall Creek State Forest 3

Cattaraugus County Campsite Coordinates

Here is a listing of the individual campsites. The road indicates the nearest road, links on state forest go to DEC website for more information, while the location link takes you to ACME Mapper to see the exact location …

Name Road State Forest Location
Flt Lean To Bryant Hill Road Boyce Hill State Forest 42.334031456350395, -78.53288931105153
Primitive Campsite Bryant Hill Road Boyce Hill State Forest 42.33203561607121, -78.52072510644783
Primitive Campsite Fadale Road Bryant Hill State Forest 42.287766301177825, -78.5774157216985
Primitive Campsite West Branch Bucktooth Run Road Bucktooth State Forest 42.205385216534836, -78.80556091590128
Designated Camp Site Bush Hill State Forest Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.37521134312278, -78.3723830068076
Designated Camp Site Bush Hill State Forest Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.375432685587, -78.37003424588094
Designated Camp Site Bush Hill State Forest Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.37844883545774, -78.36321615357782
Designated Camp Site Bush Hill State Forest Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.37834161197144, -78.3603878146659
Designated Camp Site Bush Hill State Forest Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.378704575994334, -78.35968870249168
Designated Camp Site Palmer Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.332735974553664, -78.33508401120383
Designated Camp Site Peet Hill Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.37229363838375, -78.37197015797723
Designated Camp Site State Highway 98 Bush Hill State Forest 42.378694393114884, -78.36651378010052
Designated Camp Site State Highway 98 Bush Hill State Forest 42.378944741693765, -78.35539058173165
Designated Camp Site Stebbins Road Bush Hill State Forest 42.37513245260474, -78.33871444372613
Primitive Campsite Toad Hollow Road Cattaraugus State Forest 42.323838469029404, -78.81981283576603
Primitive Campsite West Hill Road Cattaraugus State Forest 42.325245350697024, -78.82172344496075
Primitive Campsite West Hill Road Cattaraugus State Forest 42.32545276366107, -78.82246616963481
Primitive Campsite Bedient Hill Road Dobbins Memorial State Forest 42.28567958355708, -78.78343174073662
Primitive Campsite Bedient Hill Road Dobbins Memorial State Forest 42.2858770172506, -78.78182441930888
Primitive Campsite Kahler Hill Road Dobbins Memorial State Forest 42.2823609209492, -78.78908764990703
Campsite 1 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.42956020071717, -78.77841498639349
Campsite 10 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.436794682289374, -78.78725605998474
Campsite 11 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.43686641131175, -78.78876182516233
Campsite 12 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.439942456335444, -78.79280632243916
Campsite 13 Off Road East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.44116228532883, -78.7935142352489
Campsite 2 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.43075196187435, -78.77829192648777
Campsite 3 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.431524557985085, -78.77807270060917
Campsite 4 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.43246812683191, -78.77812945302628
Campsite 5 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.43354865333, -78.77826528183961
Campsite 6 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.435748272602346, -78.78009578405866
Campsite 7 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.437766021114236, -78.78129798391932
Campsite 8 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.438307230216544, -78.78167796579675
Campsite 9 East Otto Forest Access Road East Otto State Forest 42.43658224437387, -78.78115339512692
Off Rd Campsite 14 Campsite Trail East Otto State Forest 42.43495753137711, -78.78631225057045
Designated Camping Site Finger Lakes / North Country Trail Farmersville State Forest 42.395559234340155, -78.32385801814708
Primitive Campsite Huyck Road Farmersville State Forest 42.40195676450733, -78.32651113957189
Designated Camp Site Humphrey Road Golden Hill State Forest 42.24476227074854, -78.53567581233197
Designated Camp Site Humphrey Road Golden Hill State Forest 42.22838609079557, -78.55140114891826
Designated Camp Site Salamanca Sugertown Golden Hill State Forest 42.25727682111409, -78.52462511082716
Designated Camp Site Salamanca Sugertown Golden Hill State Forest 42.252966372418044, -78.52422796002587
8 Ccc Cross Pfar Mc Carthy Hill Road Mccarty Hill State Forest 42.24536126968311, -78.70056799396085
9 Ccc Cross Pfar Mc Carthy Hill Road Mccarty Hill State Forest 42.25008232988369, -78.69743897194299
Designated Campsite Mc Carthy Hill Road Mccarty Hill State Forest 42.25328568563576, -78.69299839361288
Broadwide Landing   Mccarty Hill State Forest 42.24170279920399, -78.68606010543651
Designated Camp Site North Nine Mile Road Nine Mile Creek State Forest 42.15299393539406, -78.54523009763237
Designated Camp Site North Nine Mile Road Nine Mile Creek State Forest 42.13609995741345, -78.56646823383102
Designated Camp Site   Nine Mile Creek State Forest 42.16580689557993, -78.56330674730353
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.0902198677204, -78.97720883047309
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.08987421564301, -78.97718113243893
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.088972084193635, -78.96827770846221
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.08999766571543, -78.97714470943136
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.089992105140524, -78.97802317468417
Designated Camping Site Carr Corners Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.088316667983676, -78.97750870331804
Designated Camping Site Sarver Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.09084333446055, -78.96457500076367
Designated Camping Site West Bank Perimeter Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.09059447216186, -78.9782701169741
Designated Camping Site West Bank Perimeter Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.090410597678044, -78.97737141838545
Designated Camping Site West Bank Perimeter Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.09070243921129, -78.97767425198705
Designated Camping Site West Bank Perimeter Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.09055923398494, -78.97748952634339
Designated Camping Site West Bank Perimeter Road Pine Hill State Forest 42.088333001084294, -78.96315816701363
Designated Camp Site Raecher Road Raecher Hill State Forest 42.21543142820224, -78.59833921002581
Designated Camp Site Salamanca Sugertown Raecher Hill State Forest 42.2239162845665, -78.58440803241541
6 Eckert Pfar Eckert Road Rock City State Forest 42.21386553760053, -78.72868667109137
1 Pavilion Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.20887482379478, -78.71081750896558
10 Hale Pfar Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.210726592762555, -78.70083869524316
2 Camp Seneca Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.22426854552666, -78.70039460166258
2 Pavilion Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.20874441897034, -78.70925235825437
5 Little Rock City Pfar Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.21356536202227, -78.71471680281755
7 Camp Seneca Hungry Hollow Road Rock City State Forest 42.224419413504464, -78.6988716555344
1 Camp Seneca   Rock City State Forest 42.22472181689035, -78.6999719301751
3 Camp Seneca   Rock City State Forest 42.22443219662994, -78.69949145115731
3 Pavilion   Rock City State Forest 42.20829863384421, -78.70878335178874
4 Pavilion   Rock City State Forest 42.207897403667076, -78.70778549612025
Sawmill Campsite Sawmill Run Road South Valley State Forest 42.0412038345878, -79.00831666649613
Phillips Brook Campsite West Bank Perimeter Road South Valley State Forest 42.067833333551825, -78.98651616744397
Phillips Brook Campsite West Bank Perimeter Road South Valley State Forest 42.067053833805446, -78.98539216695083
Primitive Campsite West Bank Perimeter Road South Valley State Forest 42.06781668899903, -78.986579480953
Primitive Campsite West Bank Perimeter Road South Valley State Forest 42.066675066943084, -78.98465915701098
Designated Camp Site Thorpe Hollow Road Windfall Creek State Forest 42.143916972753914, -78.61946242159415
Designated Camp Site Thorpe Hollow Road Windfall Creek State Forest 42.13859287926947, -78.63237608867878
Designated Camp Site   Windfall Creek State Forest 42.11866864256446, -78.63172401550162

Final Campfire

A slow and warm day for setting up camp for the next five days in the Finger Lakes 🐮

Finally made it to the Finger Lakes National Forest which is exactly my reaction when I pulled to the roadside desperately to piss in my wheel well as all day I’ve been peeing. I didn’t think I drank too much coffee this morning but those peaches and other farm fresh produce I was snacking on my ways to the Finger Lakes National Forest kept my bladder full and looking for trees, rest rooms and stops. Didn’t help I got stuck in bad traffic in Ithaca with construction and a tourist bus that used the back bumper of a flatbed trailer to stop and oh, yeah no power in East Ithaca or working traffic lights. Plus besides all the bathroom breaks, shopping at Walmart in Oneonta and an amazing farm stand in Caroline that made me wish I hadn’t gotten so much in Oneonta. Regardless, lots of good eating over the next few days.

Good evening! Partly clear and 79 degrees at the Finger Lakes National Forest. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 11 pm. 😓 Kind of buggy with the heat and humidity, though I expect things to improve come tomorrow. The real question is how wet will tomorrow be. Not sure, the Finger Lakes this year haven’t been as wet as Albany but not quitgy dry spell like Western New York. Seasonably wet you might say.

Got the big ol campsite ⛺ I wanted on Potomac Road. I admit I kind of raced the last two miles up here after a leisurely drive as I wanted to ensure I got the site I really wanted including swerving to dodge a pothole on the road and maybe even cutting off a driver a bit in determination to get the site though I doubt they were looking to camp here. I did see a camper van who was obviously looking for this site around 4 or 5 pm but I was here by 1:45 and it’s first come first serve. I took Friday morning off for a reason, lol. I really like this site as it’s farther off the road, well shaded but also where my truck is parked in a sunny field. No cell service at camp 🔕 but I look at that as a benefit because I like the quiet 🤫. And my radio 📻 is broke so no endless hours of talking heads 👥 discussing Jason Aldean’s Try that in a Small Town. I don’t need that crap or the endless stream of emails 📧 and notifications on vacation. 🏖

Spent the balance of the afternoon unpacking, organizing and setting up camp 💼 so everything will be perfect 👌 for the next nine days. Did a lot of cooking – chicken, potatoes, onions, peppers and other things for lunch, then a similar thing with frozen samon for dinner. 🐠 I have so much good food to eat it’s hard to know where to start. Diet, lol. 😂 Actually truth be told, I don’t have any cookies or junk food, just solid quality minimal whole fruits and vegetables 🍏 that I’m cooking and eating this week. Had a beer 🍻 but only one and no more then two each day if that all. Had some fresh squeezed lemonade 🍋 with stevia and used the rest of the lemon with the salmon. Yum, I’m eating good. 😋

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 67 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 9pm. Northwest wind around 7 mph becoming south in the evening. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1987.

My phone shows a chance of rain ☔ late this evening, so I’ll put away anything I don’t want to get wet before bed like my hammock and store my clean clothes in the cab of my truck to ensure they stay dry. I have a tent 🎪 set up for the dirty clothes, boxes and other camp supplies I’m not immediately using, mostly for organizational purposes. I think I need to get some crates for storing food, like I use on the back of my bicycle 🚲 especially as I have so much fresh stuff that I am not keeping in the cooler as I don’t have the space and I don’t think it strictly necessary but I worry about bruising and disorder in the reusable shopping bags 🛍.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 82% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (158°) at an altitude of 17° from the horizon, some 233,176 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 21st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strugeon 🐡 Moon is on Tuesday, August 1. The darkest hour is at 1:14 am, followed by dawn at 5:23 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:56 am in the east-northeast (63°) and last for 3 minutes and 15 seconds. Sunrise is 59 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:36 am with sun in the east-northeast (70°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 21 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 3 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 3pm. 🌦 High of 73 degrees at 12pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 14th. Maximum dew point of 71 at 12pm. 🏖️ West wind 9 to 15 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1894.

I am not expecting a real nice day tomorrow 🌧️ but I got books to read 📖 and podcasts to listen to and I’ll spend a relaxed day around camp doing some good cooking 🧑‍🍳 healthy ingredients from the bounty I got at Walmart and that farmers market. 🌽 I have a ton of delicious Vadella onions 🧅and lemons, 🍋 and so much else from grapes 🍇 to strawberries 🍓 that I won’t go hungry and if I do I have more salmon, fresh spinach, rice 🍚 beans 🍱 and hot peppers 🌶️. Nice days I’ll head into town or other activities, 🏊‍♂️ rainier stormy days, I’ll tool around the National Forest with Blackie my mountain bike 🚵, hike into the back country and do some fishing 🎣.

In four weeks on August 25 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (286°) at 7:55 pm,🌄 which is 38 minutes and 26 seconds earlier then today. In 2022 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 87 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1947. Too soon, I’m not willing to think about summer coming to an end on vacation, lol.

Looking ahead, Average High 70 🎑 is in 5 weeks, September 🍎 is in 5 weeks, Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 is in 5 weeks, Autumn 🍂 is in 8 weeks, Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ is in 17 weeks, December 🎄 is in 18 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 20 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 21 weeks and 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 5 months.

Summer day

A week from now I should have camp mostly set up in Finger Lakes National Forest

Summer Vacation Seems So Distant Now

Should be a nice quiet, relaxing summer vacation.

My hope is to get up there early I’ll be able to get one of my preferred campsites, and will be well settled in by the time the weekend arrives, able to do some bike riding and fishing on that first day, and ready to head down to Watkins Glen come Saturday morning to do some bike riding, swimming and maybe fishing and paddling.