Stray Kat

In the western region of New York State, not far from the city of Rochester, is the Letchworth State Park.  The park is about 17 miles (27 km) long, following a gorge cut into the shale, limestone, and sandstone of the landscape by the Genesee River.  The walls of the gorge are as tall as 550 feet (170 meters) in places, and there are three significant waterfalls within the park, but the interest of the area lies in more than…

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It’s been a while since my last post, so you may have wondered if I vanished into the Adirondacks never to return.  The fact is, I went to my friends’ house intending to stay one or two nights there and ended up staying a week.  In my defence, there’s some kind of Lake Effect that happens whenever I visit there, and I end up never really wanting to leave.  I wrote about my driving tour and my backpacking trip to Hopkins…

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