Over Labor Day Weekend I took care of two ambitions I had for the summer. One was to spend a night in the lean-to on the section of the Finger Lakes Trail that Gail and I maintain with our neighbor. Despite living within a few miles of it for 15 years and taking care of the trail for several, I'd never camped there. I also wanted to create something with a rock pile along the trail. Way back in 2003 I made my first cairn about a quarter-mile from here and it's since been labeled the "Unusual Rock Pile" in the
Cayuga Trails Club guidebook. For this one I decided on another thing that Andy Goldsworthy had done and went ahead with another cheap knock-off. Originally it was just going to encase this nearly horizontal tree, but then I decided to extend it and ring the clump of red maples. When I returned this weekend with friends Connie and Andy, Connie suggested a slight change to make it look like a dragon or serpent (I can never keep the two straight). It's still got some work to go.
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