For a fairly long ride and one we were worried about because of the weather, this turned out to be a surprisingly easy day. Faced with the triple threat of heat, humidity and thunderstorms, we got off to an early start again.
The ride dividend neatly into thirds. After a virtually flat ride southeast to Dansville along Canaseraga Creek, we climbed through a roughly thousand foot saddle before dropping to the Cohocton River and then following it for the rest of the way to Hammondsport. We were aided by a mild tailwind for the first half of the ride, which was appreciated when it boosted us up the divide; but once over the top the wind shifted and we pushed into it the rest of the way.
We were lucky on weather again, in that it stayed dry nearly the whole way except for a brief, mild shower around Dansville. Definitely hot and humid though. My underwear were drenched by the time we summited the divide, and I suffered from chafing the rest of the way. I’ll have to start applying talcum powder at the beginnings of our rides when it’s humid like this.
We arrived in Hammondsport about 12:30, too early to check in at our hotel, so we elected to take lunch indoors and away from the sun at the Timberstone Grill as our main meal. An hour later we pulled up to our motel and heard the first rumblings of thunder in the distance.
Leaving Mount Morris. The purplish storefront is the Leaning Tower, just so you know.
I couldn’t discover anything about this interesting building other than that it was built in 1900. Tiny Sonyea is interesting though. Established in 1837 as the only Shaker community in western New York, it later was the site of Craig Colony for Epileptics - I’d never heard that they were institutionalized. Now, a prison.
Looking across Canaseraga Creek. That ridge opposite that we’ve been paralleling for the last ten miles is worrisome. At some point we need to pass over or through it.
In Wallace, a village left behind when the new interstate highway bypassed it. From its website, the birdhouses are built from materials from old barns and come with a pedigree.
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