Hello Hikers!
Wednesday May 17
South Danby Road to the Tamarack Lean-to on the FLT
First hot-weather hike of the year — upper 70s when we shaped up, low 80s when we finished
With the return of bright sunny weather and the leaves now out on the trees, we’re into intense sun-and-shade effects in the woods
All of a sudden it clouded over for a few minutes and it seemed like it might rain — it’s interesting to see how drastically the cloudiness changes the lighting in the woods
I took a little poll of some people — were they feeling really hot or not? — half said they felt hot, the others not very hot
Official head count: 20H, two D
You can see Jack V’s photos here
Saturday May 20
Finger Lakes Trail and Abbott Loop between Bald Hill Road and Diane’s Crossing, Danby SF
Official head count: 22H, eight D
More photos:
Sunday May 21
Finger Lakes trail from Braley Hill Road to Shindagin Hollow Road, Shindagin Hollow SF
Official head count: 25H, eight D
We were swarmed by small flies whenever we stopped — not bad as long as we kept moving
More photos:
Who’s who in the Ithaca Hikers
I want to remind you — or maybe you never knew it to begin with — that we have an online page with photos and names attached of the people who’ve hiked with us at least semi-regularly over some period in the last five years. This is a good place to ID someone you’ve talked to on the trail or seen in the photos but you don’t know their name. Here’s a direct link to the ID page — you can also reach it at any time by going to the Home page of the hikers web site and scrolling down. Speaking of ID photos — for those of you who complain I never use photos of myself in the hike reports — here’s a shot Tiger got of me on Saturday — I hope this will silence the complaints for a while
