Report to Hikers: week of Aug 8-August 14

Hello Hikers!

Wednesday Aug 10

Cornell natural areas walk — Cascadilla Gorge and Beebe Lake

I’m not sure walking around the Cornell campus officially qualifies as “hiking”* — but it made a nice change for our midweek hikers, and we all had a lot of fun

The Cascadilla gorge trail was closed for repair for a number of years, and some of our hikers hadn’t been on it since it reopened fairly recently. A few of the repairs are a little heavy-handed, but in general the trail looks as good as ever. It’s really just as nice in its own way as our other better-known gorge walks like Buttermilk or Treman

We had to cross the campus to get from Cascadilla gorge to Beebe Lake — the two natural areas both seem completely wild and it’s hard to believe there’s a highly developed infrastructure immediately around them.

Part of this walk was to get something delicious at Collegetown Bagels as we were finishing up — but then we stopped to look at the newly opened Klarman Hall on the arts quad — nice air conditioning — we had our snack there instead — discovered there’s a machine to get free ice water

Official head count: 22H, one D

More photos online:

Annie

Jack V

Saturday Aug 13

Upper Buttermilk SP and La Tourelle

Sweatiest hike in quite a while, thanks to very high humidity — luckily it was just bearable in the shade, and most of this walk is shady

I don’t know if our hikers would be so high spirited if it was hot like this every weekend, but we all pretty much shrugged the heat off and had a great time