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Andy Arthur
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To make it home by sunset 🌇
That’s pretty late this time of year being it’s close to the first day of summer but it should give me enough time to unpack and possibly shower before retiring to bed and heading off to work tomorrow.
I’m playing the game ⛈️ how long can I delay taking down camp before the next thunderstorm rolls on through. I’m hoping the flags 🎌 and screen tent 🎪 will dry out in the sun ☀ when it peaks out before the certain rain this afternoon.
I’d like to paddle Lily Lake 🪷today but I have little faith that I will be able to do that without thunderstorms this afternoon. I did get to kayak 🛶 the Sacandaga River and Lake Pleasant on Juneteenth so not a total wash but I was hoping to see the lilies. While I wait for things to finish drying out ⭕, I’m going to float on the East Canada Creek in my tube for a while then maybe by then the flags and screen tent will be dry and then I can take them down. Then I’ll decide if the skies call for leaving for Stewart Landing to paddle up to Lily Lake – got my doubts – or spend some more time at the Potholers. I kind of are not in a rush to get back on the grid and deal with all the work crap 💩 I’ve missed while away.
In the afternoon to the evening 🚲, I am thinking about heading down to Canajahorie and riding the Canal Trail west towards Little Falls. That’s a section I’ve never done and once you get past Fort Plain 5S and the Thruway head up into the hills and it should be quiet 🤫 and remote along that section of the Mohawk. Plus maybe ride around and explore Canajahorie. I wonder how that hick town Chinese place is in town. 🍜
Yesterday was a day of sunshine and rain showers. 🌦️ Cool but not so cold. Did a lot of reading 📖 in the morning, the afternoon at the Potholers and floating in the tube. ⭕️ Had a nice for a while in the evening 🔥, in part because it was kind of a cold and damp evening.
Flower
Shelving Rock Mountain
The Shelving Rock Mountain trail follows an old carriage road from Shelving Rock Road that is blazed blue until you nearly reach the top, where you start following a yellow trail. Informal parking is located at the bottom of the Shelving Rock Trail.
Big Bay Of Piseco Lake
Call me skeptical about pollution from the Palestine train derailment being found several states over⚠️💥🚂 ☠️
It really doesn’t make much sense to me when every day humans are bathing themselves in the toxic chemicals of modern living, dumping many of those chemicals into the air, water and land around them. Whose to say toxins from the one shot train derailment and burning off are from that source and not from factory smoke stacks, tail pipes, house fires, bonfires, wastewater plants or just ordinary fugative emissions occurring from dust and wear of products in use by millions of households around the globe. Just rubbing most modern products and ordinary wear releases toxins in the air, even if you aren’t burning it or intentionally flushing down the sink.
It’s quite possible that chemical signatures match but do we really know the source? And should we be assuming that all chemicals in common use are properly and safety being disposed of? The answer is of course not, no matter how careful you are once you extract or produce a chemical some of its going to escape into the environment. Even nuclear plants – some of the most strictly regulated plants in the world – have fugative emissions both accidentally and in the ordinary course of business.