Setting up camp, registration, and a social occupied Friday evening. Saturday there were various choices of routes. I did the 85 mile loop around Lake Seneca.

On Sunday, there was again a choice of routes. I did the 16 mile hilly route. Both of these routes were the same as last year's ride except I did the 16 mile route clockwise this year. Also, I again looked for the fire tower and this year I found it! Some spectacular views from the fire tower at an elevation of about 2165 feet.

We returned home Sunday afternoon.

	OK, this isn't part of the Finger Lakes Tour. It's Jeff and I at his Birthday Dinner at a nice restaurant named Carmine's.		Here's Jane with Jeff who's getting ready to open his present which turned out to be a Garmin Vista GPS. Guess who's jealous!
	Jane at our camp at the Watkins Glen State Park Hidden Valley Group Camp on Friday afternoon.		A wider view of our campsite.
	Saturday's ride around Lake Seneca. I ran my GPS during the ride and the track recorded by the GPS is overlain on a USGS topographic map. The campsite is in the lower left. I rode out of the camp on the northern most of the two legs, then went around the lake clockwise and came back to camp on the southern leg.		The altitude and total climb recorded by the GPS. Actually, the GPS only records altitude. It will also display a total climb, but there is no way to upload that number as far as I know. In any case, if one adds together all the upward changes in altitude that are greater than 3 feet, the result is close to what the GPS gives. In this case, the chart shows 3300 feet of total climb while the GPS showed 3150 feet.
	A winery and vineyards along the west side of Seneca Lake.		A view of Seneca Lake from the west side looking northeast.
	A wine barrel family participates in the advertising!		Not everything grown around the lake is grapes. Here's a farm on the west side of Seneca Lake.
	After 25 miles or so, the road heads downhill as it gets closer to the lake. This view is to the northeast.		At the north end of the lake is the town of Geneva and a lake front park. Here's a gazebo in the park. The view is to the southwest. This is roughly 35 miles from the start of the ride.
	The view south from the park. I believe some sort of sailboat race was going on.		The swimming area at the park. It was only mid morning, so there weren't very many swimmers. Also, the day started out relatively cool, but by mid afternoon had warmed up considerably.
	Adjacent to the park is route 20 and across the highway are some switchyards. A very slow moving train had just left. It was so slow moving that I caught up with it and passed it - uphill!		Even small towns seem to get graffiti.
	About a third of the way down the east side of the lake, a view to the southwest.		For the winter, boats are stored out of the water. (I assume this is because the lake freezes.)
	The patio at the Wagner Winery and Microbrewery has a good view of the lake (barely visible in this shot) and the hills on the western side. For some reason, these people preferred sitting in the sun. Maybe they hadn't been riding in the sun for 6-7 hours!		I ran into some fellow cyclists at the winery. This is Doug, his daughter Kelly, and Karen. Thess folks are part of a group that drove their bikes to the winery and rode a loop from the winery. Karen decided to ride the rest of the way back to camp, about 17 miles. We retrieved her car after dinner. Karen is the organizer of the FANY ride; check out her hat. We went on the ride with her last year.
	This limo has an interesting paint job. We saw this in the Wagner Winery parking lot as we were getting ready to leave. Later we saw it near the campgrounds.		I'm standing in front of Hector Falls.
	Karen at Hector Falls.		Dinner at the campground lodge Saturday night. The main course was roast chicken. The next morning we had a scrambled egg breakfast. Saturday morning there were donuts and coffee and Friday night there was a "social" with chili and other snacks.
	Another view of dinner showing the window into the kitchen. Besides water bottles, you might spot a few wine bottles. It turns out that after wine tasting at Wagner Winery, you can buy a bottle or two and the SAG wagon fetches all the purchases in time for dinner. This seems to be the main function of the SAG wagon on this ride!
	Sunday's ride. I did the loop clockwise starting from the "inside stub" on the lower right. The stub on the left is Tower Hill Road, which I hiked up to get to the lookout tower. The hike was recorded on my GPS and accounts for about 2 miles of the distance and about 300 feet of the total climb. The round trip hike is actually 1.5 miles, but I did some wandering around at the top. The bike mileage was 16.1 miles.		The altitude and total climb for Sunday's ride. The total climb shown by the GPS receiver was 1450 feet which agrees fairly well with the 1500 feet shown here. The hike up tower hill road started at about 1850 feet. The little blip to the very top is the climb up the lookout tower.
	From the lookout tower to the east towards Seneca Lake. I believe, but am not positive, that the lake is between the third and fourth set of ridges. The nearby trees count as ridge 1, behind them is ridge 2 on which you can barely make out individual trees. Behind that is ridge 3 which is well defined, but individual trees cannot be resolved. Finally, just barely visible, is ridge 4.		From the lookout tower to the northwest. I believe the small lake is Lake Lamoka (which doesn't count as a Finger Lake!). In the distance somewhere is Keuka Lake, an official Finger Lake.
	The lookout tower from which the two previous photos were taken. The top of the tower was padlocked shut, so I could only get as high as the top landing.		At the top of the hill where the lookout tower (and some radio towers) are located, there's a campground. (I think it's fairly primitive in that the instructions on the bulletin board tell you to go into the forest and dig a latrine and cover it well!) An equestrian club was camped there for the purpose of going on rides together. When I told the woman who told me this that I was with a bike club that was doing more or less the same things, she said, "Maybe we'll be using the same trails." I said, "No, we pretty much stick to the roads." She said, patting her horse, "Well, we have all terrain vehicles."
	Tower Hill Road on the way back to my bike which I left locked to a sign at the intersection of Tower Hill and Sugar Hill Roads. Yes, it's a steep hill!		Here I am parking my bike against a tree at the end of Sunday's ride. I had a shower, then we broke camp and returned home.