Road Trips and Hike Reports

Brian had a work function to attend and I wanted to stay out of trouble so I decided to try joining Foothills Trail Club on a nice long walk on a beautiful Saturday. I learned a lot on the hike.  The trail club doesn't just lead hikes, they also maintain a very long corridor of their own trails from Canada to Pennsylvania.  Their trail is affiliated with the Finger Lakes trails but FLT has its own trail conference so I'm not sure how the two exactly relate. So the hike was a one way hike with a shuttle along the clubs own trail. Despite starting in  a little trail head lot that directly abutted Darien Lakes state park just off US-20, the hike was entirely NOT in the park and went to the other side of US-20 right away and stayed south of it the whole time.  The trail passed through mostly privately owned lands on negotiated easements.  Much of the mileage was along the edges of corn fields and little areas of trees in between the farm plots.  There were some brief steep sec

I ordered a pocket size Rochester hike guide from Amazon.  It has easy day hikes in and near Rochester. I'm not sure why I've never seen a pocket sized hike guide before.  Some hikes are intricate enough we end up carrying around the book for most of the distance. This hike was along the bluffs above the Genesee River starting near the Seneca Park Zoo.  The first part of the walk is on a really cool elevated walkway and bridge far above the river surface.  I'm not sure why they went to such expense to build an overpass type walkway on the hillside when there is also a trail at the natural top of the bluff but it's pretty cool. Above picture from trover.com The rest of the walk was more 'traily' Remaining pics by Brian