In the Gorge

   It's been dry.  Not the lowest gauge reading I've seen for our water supply, but not much above it.  No water usage restrictions so far.

  Before things got so dry, I got this nice picture.

 And this video.

   I don't know if the dry conditions had anything to do with this rockfall.  It's the biggest I've ever encountered.  In the "Timing is Everything" department, it happened in the middle of the night after many people had been hanging out in that very spot on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

   While we are only about 1/3 of a mile from it, we didn't hear it.  But from these posts to a local discussion group, the sound carried up and down the gorge quite a ways.  I've heard small rocks break off that sounded like a gunshot, this must have been incredible to be heard from Newfield to Brooktondale.

   Over in Cascadilla Gorge, work continues on the walkway from downtown up to Collegetown.  These are the top steps which gave me hope they were nearing completion and the trail might open before it gets closed for the winter.  I've since learned my optimism was probably unfounded, but not to be ruled out.

   Absolutely nothing to do with the gorges, but where else am I going to post a picture of a giant lamprey about to eat Bill Murray?  It is near where the rockfall happened.