🏷️ hiking

Before the concert @terry, @tinypliny and I went hiking at the gorge. We had two hours before the conceryt so it was really a quick run down, across and back up.

I think tiny might have been slightly terrified of the climbing over fallen rocks part. At the bottom we had a nice snack if organic treats.

There was a boyscout troop doing the same thing. I couldn't believe how many of them were fat and having trouble. There were barely any fat scouts when I was a kid. I don't mean stocky either I mean straight up fatties.

The water was higher than I ever remember it which makes be think canoeing at somewhere like zoar valley would be awesome.

Despite the rain we made it to the eternal flame at chestnut ridge. It was not lit and our small lighter wasn't helping. Next time we will have to return with one of the barbeque lighters.

Despite it being such a beautiful day there was barely anyone there.

I carried this freaking heavy 35 lb rock a mile uphill from the creaked to the car so that the tortoise could have a new basking rock. You can see it on @terry #54191


It felt so great to lay out in the sun. I feel bad that @mike had to work today.


Everyone things e:matthews pictures happen effortlessly but I had to move this giant log that was blocking the view.



Here he is taking the pic.




@terry and I climbed up a new cliff. We had to leave @matthew behind a bit because of his fractured rib. See if you can see him in the pic - he is a tiny dot. Its so hard to tell just how steep and far up this is from the pic.




This is the view from the top.


Apparently, fraking is still an issue at Zoar. I though they weren't going to frack but @terry says it was just a temporary moratorium.


I love looking through tree roots at the creekbed.

I hate winter but since the gym closed and my life seems so stressful I need to start some other form of physical fitness.

Seeing as the car is on its last leg we decided to stay close by and headed to Tifft Nature Preserve. Only in Buffalo do you head to a landfill/nature preserve for a day out I'm the county.

The best part was having little chickadees land on my hand. I felt bad that I had no food in my hand but they don't allow it. Clearly people do as they were all over me.

I spent it at zoar valley with @terry and @matthew. I really hope they don't frack it all up for next year.

I hope it stay this way for the rest of the fall.

I have been to Letchworth like 30 times but I never saw it so crowded as yesterday. It made me never want to go back. We had to wait forever to get in and then there were numerous traffic jams throughout the park. It was the arts and crafts show weekend but I have been there for that too and don't remember it ever being like this. I guess that was many years ago. It makes me wonder if the internet is making everything more accessible and therefore raising the amount of people that visit.



Here is @matthew taking some pics. See @matthew #52934 to see some of them.


I love these viewfinders. They have their own aesthetic that screams institutionalized natural wonder.


We managed to go up on the railroad bridge again.


It is clearly marked no trespassing but people flock to it. This was the most crowded I ever saw it. One time some of my friends were up there and I was down below playing in the river. We were young and neither thing was allowed. They were just about in the middle when a train started coming. I had not been up there at the time so I didn't realize people plus a train could fit. From below, it looked like everyone was going to die.


You can see from the clean tracks that the bridge is still in use by railroad car.


Its really high up. Looking through the tracks is a little frightening. What blows my mind is that people bring their kids up there. Seriously, small children could fall through the cracks.



The whole reason everyone does it is for the view. It is pretty amazing looking down over the falls. You can see some hot air balloons about to take off on the left.


I took so many pictures out the window because of this bird poop ghost. I almost looks like the virgin mary. I think in Mexico this could have been considered a sign of her presence.


I just wish I had made spooky noises in the video.

While hiking we came upon a mass grave for picnick tables at Glimmerglass state park.

It looked like this from the top.


And like this once you saw over the ridge.

We went back to little rock city. This time we got totally crazy and were jumping between rocks with 20ft+ drops. At one point we were able to jump between 3 rocks. I wish @jacob could have been there. He would have loved it.

@terry is insane. I will try and climb just about an

Below is a major dropoff like 40+ feet down


Sadly, this time we found a clean cut area


@keith jumping to the second rock. I am so sad that this video is sideways. Someday I should edit and rotate it. I tried to compile ffmpeg to enable the vfilter rotation option but it did not work.



trying to convince Casey to jump.


@KeithT posing as a tough guy


I tracked our whole journey on google's My Tracks. I wanted to be able to return to the part I was too afraid to jump on.


The rest are caseys photos from @KeithT's facebook.

I really enjoyed the day at Griffis Sculpture Park with @matthew, @enknot, @KeithT, @terry and I went out down to the park.

@keith had a hard time getting 3g so he went to the top of the tower


The white flowers are awesome.


Keith looks like he is having fun.


This is matthew from the tower


This statue was gigantic.


The palette hive was awesome. It seems like they nailed it together and then shaved it with a chain saw.


@keith really loves a handful of metal


here is @terry as a monkey, you should have seen @keith's reach


@terry and @enknot in a tree


Here is the KML file to track our path through the woods. I figured it would almost be impossible to find some of the stuff again without it. I forgot to track the part from the parking lot to the cement bags sculpture, the place where I started recording.