![Lehigh Valley caboose](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1092-LehighValleyCaboose.jpg)
The former depot has become a photography shop. I love it when these old stations can be saved and repurposed.
![Cazenovia railroad depot](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1093-LVDepot.jpg)
The trail follows the rail bed for most of the miles we walked today. This is a truly lovely walk. The surface is cinder, so it's not as hard on your feet as pavement. And unlike a lot of rail-trails, the sides are flanked by tall trees which provide wonderful shade. You can see that the leaves have totally popped in the last few days. Things smelled green!
![rail trail](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1094-LVTrail.jpg)
In a lot of places the railroad was beside creeks that burbled as they flowed through rocky beds.
![creek](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1095-CanastotaCreek.jpg)
There was a section of roadwalk, but it was a keeper with distant views of Oneida Lake and beautiful farms. Oneida Lake is not technically a Finger Lake, but sometimes it's called "the thumb."
![hillside farms](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1096-SiebenbaumRd.jpg)
Did you notice that I said "we walked?" Sarah hiked with me again today.
![hikers](https://www.booksleavingfootprints.com/BlogPix/NCTthru1097-SarahJoan.jpg)
It was hot, but not quite so brutal with some cloud cover and the lovely shade on most of the trail
Miles today: 15.5. Total miles so far: 2137.6.
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4 comments:
Beautiful photos! I thought of you this week as I hiked 2 sections of the NCT in Northern MN w/friends. We only went 4 miles each time, but it was after biking 40 miles earlier in the day...lots of MUD there! We spread the word about your walk and the NCT w/the others in our camp ground. Keep up the good work! Glad you had a buddy to walk w/you!
What a beautiful area to hike through. Love those views.
Lulu: "Oneida Lake! Dada says you're really getting close to his old territory now!"
Kathie- I'll be at the Celebration
Ann- It sure was nice
Lulu- Oneida Lake is big. I'm moving away from it now, toward Rome.
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