Day 5 - Albany, NY - Cohocton, NY

Driving through thick fog

and sunshine again

When researching what here was to see between Albany and Niagara Falls I spotted Watkins Glen State Park, in fact it was a picture on Pinterest that first caught my eye and I told Mark that we were going to visit as it looked amazing.

Watkins Glen State Park is a 1000 acre park and the main attraction is the 400 foot deep narrow gorge that cuts through the rock by Glen Creek stream over the last 12,000 years - fascinating and mind-blowing.

We walked the gorge trail to the end which was 1½ miles and altogether more than 800 stone steps and then back again along the Indian Trail.  A truly amazing experience.

We had taken much longer over our visit to Watkins Glen than we had first planned to we were much later arriving at GC39 The Spot.  This is a May 2000 cache and is the last box that need to be ticked on our Jasmer Grid so we were really keen to find it as it’s the only one we’d be able to find on this trip.

We had carefully read the previous logs and found a suitable parking place to begin the walk.  This cache was the reason we hired a 4WD this trip as we knew the road leading to the trail head was rough we just weren’t sure how rough. 

The previous logs had described the walk as being quite an arduous and had mentioned a steep climb so we set off not really knowing what to expect.

We thoroughly enjoyed the walk in the early evening sunshine and soon found our way down into the gorge and to the cache – YAY!  Jasmer Challenge now complete!  It was a nice feeling to complete it after working our way through the grid over the last few years.

Jasmer Challenge Complete!

We then set off to our accommodation in Cohocton but decided to take a detour to a  virtual on the way.  The virtual caught our eye as it is set on the bridge that features in one of our favourite films – ‘It’s a wonderful Life’….

George Bailey's bridge

Day 6 - 326 miles