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Camping Tioga State
Forest and Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon
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A six photo panorama of Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon.
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Looking down on the Grand Canyon. To the left is
a bike path.
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| My pal Chris, who organized this trip, has a zoom lens on his camera. I asked him to try to get a shot of the bicyclists. |
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Chris talking to the Tioga State Park rangers on the phone, and describing in detail the kind of camp we wanted, was able to find us a great camp site. The rangers were very helpful. You need to get a free permit to camp here. Bureau of Forestry for Tioga State Forest: (570) 724-2868. Wellsboro, PA 16901 Here Chris stands in front of the fence keeping him from falling to certain death in the canyon. |
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Looking over the edge. This photo does little to
describe how vertiginous a drop this is.
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Another shot from the "Rim Trail."
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Map of Colton Point State Park
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Our campsite. We called it Camp Firefly. There were
hundreds, maybe thousands, of them blinking in unison around us. The
first couple of nights we stayed here it was remarkalbly free of mosquitoes,
blackflies, deerflies etc. But on the last night the mosquitoes found
us. Here's
an account of our Adirondack's trip where the insects were not quite
as kind.
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"Four Mile Vista." Very near our campsite.
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Chris, very happy to be out of the city.
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| The campfire was our television substitute, and mosquito repellent. We did all our actual cooking on a small propane camping stove, that had a tendency to tip. |
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| Chris tending the fire. Actually, Chris posing like he's tending the fire. If he was actually moving, he would have been a total blur. |
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Here I am making some morning pancakes.
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| The stream right next to our campsite. It was icy cold, and a cool breeze flowed along it. It gave me relief from the heat, sitting by it in a folding director's chair, reading "On the Road." What decadence! |
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Wildflower close-up. Chris's Canon Coolpix has a
nice macro feature. I need to get one of those. You can see more of
Chris's
photos from the trip here.
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| Here I am trying to make some music out of an rusty old fire ring. It had a break in it, and depending on where I the string was placed, I could get two somewhat harmonious notes out of it. |
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On the way back to NYC, we stopped to get a photo
of this farm.
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Chris's photo of the farm.
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Another Pennsylvania farm, caught on the fly.
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| This was from our moving car's window . Notice how my camera recorded the scene. It scans from the bottom to the top of the frame, making the nearby fence appear to lean to the left. Objects further from the camera are not as drastically affected. |
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| They are doing roadwork on I-80 in Pennsylvania, that reduces it to one lane for a stretch of about a mile. This brought us to a near standstill for about an hour on our way to there. We thought there must have been active construction blocking the way, but it was only the closing of one lane to let the new concrete harden. I think people must have been stopping their cars to hysterically laugh when they realized what had been holding them dead still so long in the oppressive heat. This is a shot of the jam from the eastbound side on our way back to NYC. |
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