We have discovered another preserve area that Binghamton University owns, right across the street from the hundreds of preserve acres that we have hiked in our 8 years here. This is a much more difficult area to hike in that there is no real trail head, no maintained trails to walk, and it is a little hidden and harder to find. If you didn't know where to look, I don't think you'd ever see it. Today was the perfect morning to go; it was still cool outside and the kids had all consumed an enormous breakfast (but still asked for snacks along the way in any event) and everyone was in good humor. Molly was the eagle eye today and spied this deer at the top of the ridge as we got started down below. She (he?) stood there for a long time and watched us watching him, then when we headed out, he decided to run off as well. We ended up, since it is summer and very dry, hiking in the creek bed that runs basically parallel to the road that separates us from the university. From the debris left over, you can tell that when there is water in the creek, it has a strong current and goes quite a ways up the walls of the creek we were walking in. The kids found a few large rocks to sit on that reminded us of being in Maine and climbing on the rocks there. The last picture is of us making it to the first waterfall that we found. It did have some water trickling down, but it was no where near its full capacity!!
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