There is something special about taking the long way. The old fashioned way. The hard way. Sure, there are planes and trains and buses and cars and bikes, but there’s just something about going for a hike. For a long walk, for a short stroll, to relieve your mind of tolls. To soak in the …
DENY Podcast: New York Parks & 600 Miles on the Erie Canal
Pop some headphones on and go for a walk while listening to my story about one heck of a walk. Part One: I ask my mom about her favorite parts of New York. She asks me about walking from Buffalo to Albany. Part two: My mom asks me about all the odd things I saw …
Letchworth’s Canal: Throwing Money in a Ditch
Letchworth State Park had a canal running alongside the Genesee River gorge. Its been abandoned for over 140 years. It took 25 years and 6 million dollars to construct the Genesee Valley Canal. All for the canal to be abandoned 16 years after it was completed. Talk about throwing money in a ditch, eh? …
Cohoes Falls: Niagara’s Eastern Wannabe
Cohoes, a six-story waterfall. Between 70-90 feet tall, Cohoes Falls is New York’s second tallest waterfall. The tallest are the American and Bridal Falls of Niagara Falls, both between 90-120 feet in height. By no means is Cohoes — or Niagara for the matter — one of the world’s tallest waterfalls, but the Mohawk River …
Meet the Dork Who’s Exploring New York
My name is Jules Hoepting (jewels/joules, hope-ting), a 21-year-old dork who has taken to walking around and testing my phone’s photo storage capacity. Canadian by birth, I grew up in the flat part of New York, the former basin of Lake Ontario. When I was one year old, my mom moved to Orleans County for …