Lovely travelogue, Bruce.   Don't forget Buttermilk Falls where you could
slide down the slippery face of the falls into the swimming pool at the
bottom - or do they still allow that?

That Ithaca stuff really gets in your blood doesn't it.

Our local University/College has just been awarded full University status
and therefore the opportunity for a new name.   Debate is raging around town
and campus concerning the suggestions.   Last week, while having lunch in a
little downtown cafe, the man at the neighbouring table said very intensely,
"Why couldn't we just have some nice name like "Cornell" and a pretty city
name like "Ithaca" instead of "Kamloops", a name that sounds like a joke or
a breakfast cereal."   I was all ears, and then asked why they were so
interested in the topic, and he turned out to be the Chairman of the
University Board.   He had never been to Ithaca, but just liked the sound of
the name and the image he had developed about it.

cp in bc

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From: "Bruce Marcham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] SLAY MOST FOWL


A very high water falls at the end of one of the Finger Lakes (actually
about 13 miles north of the south end) was probably Taughannock Falls State
Park on Cayuga Lake, once claiming to be the highest falls east of the
Rockies or some such thing at 215 feet.  I think a rock slide or cave-in
under the falls ended that claim back about 20 years ago--the water used to
fall directly into the plunge pool but now hits a rock pile at the bottom.

There are other smaller falls around Ithaca (at the very south end of Cayuga
Lake) and Watkins Glen (at the south end of Seneca Lake) but they don't
compare in height to Taughannock.  Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek in Ithaca is
not as high, doesn't have as high free fall, but usually has a lot more
water going over it.  Lit up at night in the winter, encrusted with ice, it
is quite a sight.  There are numerous smaller falls in the State Parks
around Ithaca and Watkins Glen and some that aren't in formal parks but are
fun to explore nonetheless.  The gorges are cool places on hot summer
days...

As the bumper sticker says "Ithaca is Gorges."

http://www.taughannock.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Easy bent lead pipe.
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Barton
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] SLAY MOST FOWL

>
they were truly beautiful.  When I was a kid I went with some cousins and
we went down to the other end of one of those "Finger Lakes" where there
was a very high water fall.
>

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