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Watkins Glen Park, New York Travels with The Road Scholars....(This is a blast from the past)

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Getting ready to descend the gorge at Watkins Glen Park in NY.  My new buddies and I were ready with cameras in hand and over 800 steps ahead of us. So let's get started.  As usual, I will have informational quotes from Wikipedia in italics... Watkins Glen State Park/Wikipedia Watkins Glen State Park  is located outside the village of  Watkins Glen,  New York , south of  Seneca Lake  in  Schuyler County  A friend of mine looked at my photos and asked if I walked across on the log in the photo below. The answer to that would be "No!" that did not even enter my mind:-) The 1000-acre park's centerpiece is a 400-foot-deep (120 m) narrow  gorge  cut through rock by a stream – Glen Creek – that was left  hanging  when  glaciers  of the  Ice age  deepened the  Seneca valley.  The Road Scholars are all about education.  They taught us all about the types ...