A new map of sorts. It's 5'x4' 1965 map of the Ithaca City School District. It's going up in our classroom next year.
The Ithaca Times Summer Issue had a nice graphic. Even if they left off Six Mile Creek, it's pretty impressive. They did one of the more comprehensive editions they've ever done. Coming to town? Check it out.
One of my Booksale scores was this 1869 publication. Exploration was different then, less private land and more personal risk permitted. Except for the "fairer sex." They were advised to skip several ravines and waterfalls. Poor guys.
Roxy and I have had a chance to take a personal risk I don't recall ever being available in Six Mile Creek: a log that spans the whole creek and can be used as a bridge. Roxy was behind me the first two times over it, indifferent of the experience, but she jumped up ahead of me the third time. There's vittles in them cracks!
Gail breezed through Forest and Crag by Laura and Guy Waterman. After many years of hoping it would show up at the Booksale, she cashed in a gift card and bought it new.
In their day, Laura and Guy did an amazing amount of trail work. I do enough to make a difference for plenty of people. Get out there.
Here's an altered route never before available. People didn't like the original because it was exceptionally narrow with lots of roots. One slip or trip and you would drop 100' before you stop, unless you hit a tree and stop like I did while working on this. Get out there.
Here's another "never before". I was lucky to be biking up the hill on the Rec Way when this turkey walked out of the woods. A collision coming down would not be pleasant.
Talia's no turkey, but a genuinely fine human who came to visit from Israel. As a going away gift after attending IHS, she gave us a poster with too many pictures of me on it. To appease her, I put it up next to another one we like to have in our room.
Let's hear it for Emma. She made it to the Eastern Regional Finals for climbing. If- if she'd made one more hold she would have gone to Nationals. Maybe next year she won't be distracted by tennis and can focus on climbing enough to make one more hold.
Elsewhere around the school: our integrity is fading, the last bond that passed before the recent one failed is being spent in the tech area with a complete rebuild, and we got a kick-ass bumper sticker on the Trolley Bridge at Cornell.
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