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snowy East Bifurcation Falls
Sunday, March 30 2025
location: 940 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
I got up in the middle of the night at some point to look for Charlotte, since she wasn't with me and Neville back in the bed. Unusually, she was on the downstairs dog bed, not in the beanbag in the loft. I covered her with blankets, as temperatures in the cabin had fallen back into the 50s. She stayed snugggled up that way until I got up this morning and made a fire. I had of course drunk a bit to much last night, so I had a mild hangover. So I made myself a french press and played a little Spelling Bee (though I don't think I ever even made it out of "nice"). Then at some point I upgraded the cellular hotspot watchdog ESP8266 with my latest firmware. For some reason, though, after I did that it seemed to struggle making an initial WiFi connection, though once it did, it operated as it should.
Once I had that as an accomplishment, I took Charlotte for a walk. We took the old path down to the dock and then walked the lakeshore path to the outflow, crossed the outflow creek on the stone causeway (which I'd never seen so flooded before) and then followed East Bifurcation Creek to East Bifurcation Falls, which I wanted to see in the full glory of springtime runoff. The snow pack north of the lake was still largely intact and was very deep in places (particularly on either side of large fallen trees), so it kept going over the top of my boots, forcing me to have to stop and shake out the snow before continuing. Eventually I developed an eye for places where the snow pack would be shallow and did better avoiding the deep stuff.
When I finally made it back to the cabin, I found Charlotte and Neville upstairs together on the beanbag. I immediately returned to upgrading the firmware on the remaining ESP8266 devices, including the one under the stairs in the bulkhead. Unfortunately, though, a leak that had begun last night from the assblaster attached to the toilet in the bathroom directly over those bulkhead steps had caused enough water to drip into the bulkhead area to disable (if not destroy) that ESP8266, which had just survived the winter in that dank, humid space.
When I'd finished upgrading all the ESP8266s, including the SolArk Copilot, I cleaned up the cabin, packed up what I'd be taking back home with me, and began my drive back to Hurley. I must've begun that drive at around 2:00pm, because I was back home at around 4:00pm. Meanwhile Gretchen was still at that function up in Hudson.
When Gretchen got home, we opened up some of pre-made pouches of Indian food and Gretchen cooked up some dosas using dosa batter, which she stuffed with a smushed potato curry. Then we watched Jeopardy! and an especially confusing episode of Severance, the one where Mark's wife Gemma seems to have been severed into numerous separate experiences, some of which only experience dental work or Christmas. The show is now seemingly in constant shark-jump mode.
The outflow dams with their recent beaver-engineered upgrades. Click to enlarge.
Charlotte with the lower outflow dam and flooded stone causeway. Click to enlarge.
Charlotte at the top of East Bifurcation Falls. Click to enlarge.
A chip of wood the size of a brazil nut removed by a beaver as part of its carpentry near the outflow dams. Click to enlarge.
The residue in the bathtub after the water of the bath that I took last night slowly drained out. Click to enlarge.
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