Given another fantastic day like last Saturday, some of us decided, again, to spend part of the afternoon hiking. This time Joe, Jon, and I headed over to
Robert H. Treman State Park, which is perhaps fifteen minutes by car from downtown Ithaca. There we hiked the Gorge Trail up to Lucifer Falls and took the Rim Trail back down.
In the end, we hiked close to five miles from the mid-afternoon to the early evening. It was pretty up and down, and I imagine that I'm really going to feel it tomorrow, not being accustomed to such things anymore. The views were definitely worth it, though--as with some other things around here, I was reminded of some of the places my family used to hike in the Ozarks when I was younger.
Of course, the Ozarks haven't got waterfalls like Ithaca. Along the hike today, I commented on how I was going to have
entire photo albums full of waterfall pictures by the time I leave here in five years. Then it occurred to me that there's a certain irony in that, seeing that I came here to get a PhD studying fluid mechanics. This led to the declaration that I must, somehow, manage to fit a picture of one of the waterfalls near Ithaca into my thesis.
More pictures from this afternoon's adventure are
in the gallery. That will do for me for the moment, since it's now past midnight. Must get some sleep or I won't make it through fluids tomorrow morning.
In the end, we hiked close to five miles from the mid-afternoon to the early evening. It was pretty up and down, and I imagine that I'm really going to feel it tomorrow, not being accustomed to such things anymore. The views were definitely worth it, though--as with some other things around here, I was reminded of some of the places my family used to hike in the Ozarks when I was younger.
Of course, the Ozarks haven't got waterfalls like Ithaca. Along the hike today, I commented on how I was going to have entire photo albums full of waterfall pictures by the time I leave here in five years. Then it occurred to me that there's a certain irony in that, seeing that I came here to get a PhD studying fluid mechanics. This led to the declaration that I must, somehow, manage to fit a picture of one of the waterfalls near Ithaca into my thesis.
More pictures from this afternoon's adventure are in the gallery. That will do for me for the moment, since it's now past midnight. Must get some sleep or I won't make it through fluids tomorrow morning. 
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