Backpacking Again
It was time to try backpacking again! Sophia reluctantly humored me for "just one overnight" and 'NOT where we went before." We headed for Schuyler County again, this time to Birds Eye Hollow State Forest. Armed with kayak and fishing rod "just in case," we found a sweet park at Birds Eye Hollow Pond, complete with bridge and fishing dock. Our mission, however, was to find the snow mobile trail and get away from it all. An hour later, however, we were still driving up and down gravel roads, gathering landmarks. Wait. What? The gravel roads around Sanford Lake ARE the snow mobile trail? Well that is no fun! Back to the pond we went to park and hit yet another section of the Finger Lakes Trail. Crossing the road, we followed the white blazes to the left and found a remarkable old cemetery in a clearing. The dates spoke to times of local settlement with the most modern date registering 1913. A bit beyond w...
