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opening the Mt. Goat path
Sunday, October 23 2011
Today Gretchen was down in the City, walking so as to raise money for Farm Sanctuary. (Here's the kind of person she is: I believe she raised more money than anyone else.) I spent my day watching another obscure parasite horror movie called Splinter (thanks again, Madeline Brand). Splinter was done on the cheap, supposedly using gymnasts capable of unnaturally contorting their bodies to portray those unfortunate characters. It was pretty disgusting at times, but fun all the same.
On two occasions I went out into the woods with the chainsaw to clear fallen trees out of the trails, particularly on the Mountain Goat Trail (where a tree at 41.924967N, 74.102182W had blocked the narrow pathway along a section of very steep slope). As I was working on this, our neighbor (and brother of the guy who sold us our house) came hiking over to see who was using a chainsaw in these woods. It was a relief to see that it was just me clearing trails. He told me that his mountain bike trail through the woods to the bottom of Dug Hill Road had been hopelessly blocked in multiple places by fallen trees. And then we talked for a bit about Occupy Wall Street. Unlike most people one expects to meet in the woods, he enthusiastically supports the movement.
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