We were all home today for Memorial Day. To mark the occasion we took a trip to Stony Brook state park, which is about an hour away due south of Rochester. It's a gorge cut into the layers of the Devonian Shale. The layers were formed by the sediment in a vast inland sea in the region and later cut into by glaciers as well as erosion.
The park is gorgeous. You can hike down the gorge itself, which has a series of waterfalls and loads of pools where you can wade if you are in the mood. There are also trails along the East and West rims of the gorge which I've done with cadets previously. This time Susan dropped Josh and Sam and me at the upper end of the gorge trail and then went to the bottom where she hike up to meet us in the middle. All that after a picnic on the edge of their great playground.
The boys had a great time, as did Susan and I. Below are some photos from the hike.
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| Steep walls! |
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| Group selfie. Is that a groupie! |
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| That delightful playground. |
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| Panorama shot on the trail. |
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| Sam, wading. It was in the low 80s, making the water pretty refreshing. |
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| There were some nice bridges over the gorge. |
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| Sam said the outing was "epic" |
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| Isn't this vertiginous? |
Happy Memorial Day!
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