I have a collection of eleven or so IP cameras around my cabin and the stream at my Goodnow Flow camp in Newcomb (NY Adirondacks). It might be pretentious to call it a network but I have been adding cameras to catch various kinds of wildlife. I’ve been tweaking theContinue Reading
The 2020 camp season is running down for my three season cabin. I visited my cabin November 10-11 overnight and 11/26 for just a few hours. This was mainly to tweak cameras to run autonomously through the winter without regular visits. I might not be at the Cabin in theContinue Reading
I try to keep an eye on real-estate prices at the Flow. Everyone finds camp values interesting and property tax valuations are an ongoing issue. At Thanksgiving 2020 I found 15 sales dating back to mid 2017 using Zillow and info on Judy Morris’ Higher Places realty pages. I knowContinue Reading
Goodnow Flow flooding events The Flow has overfilled several times since the 2016 dam and spillway rebuild began. This may have been inexperience managing the gates or due to real limitations in the capacity of the openings to clear water. It doesn’t affect me much given that the bottom ofContinue Reading
We are in a droughty year and the Ski Slope spring has run dry. The post describes some locations where you can obtain good town water. This is a redo of a Facebook post at goodNOW! – stuff on FB quickly slides into oblivion. A shout out to Ruth OlbertContinue Reading
USPS mailing options at the Goodnow Flow and Newcomb NY There is a US post office in Newcomb open noon to 4 pm weekdays, 9 am to 12:30 pm on Saturdays (last mail collection 4 pm weekdays, noon on Saturdays). It’s signed up, a bit before the Hudson bridge onContinue Reading
Newcomb has a town website. Note that Judy Morris has a different kind of services list – one more directed to buying maintaining or building property in Newcomb. At the time of writing, businesses are largely shut down and medical facilities have altered hours and access – I’m providing links,Continue Reading
Working with the map snippet for part of the Goodnow Flow I loaded Woody Olmsted’s Finch-Pruyn maps onto my ADK forestry Maps site but they are too big to be useful intact– unless you get them printed wall-sized, a letter-sized print out is too compressed. For Goodnow Flow and surroundingsContinue Reading