Standard Ride-up-the-West-Glenville Hills escarpment . . .with a quick glance at the bridge under repair

It was a standard Ride-up-the-West-Glenville Hills escarpment . . .with a quick glance at the bridge under repair. T-bone and I left Nisky, ran through the town moves past Ellis, down Nott, through the back streets around Avneue B, then across the Freeman Bridge. . . to Sunnyside. Once on the other side of the tracks, and onto Cuthbert, Vley, etc. we spoke.

"So what do you want to do?" We couldn't decide but whipped past the turn off for Ridge and Rte 147. As we moved west on Rte 5 toward Amsterdam, we passed our options: Rector, Gower, and then decided to stop at the makeshift light next to the Stewarts Shops and look over the mounds of dirt to check out the repairs.

The repairs are on the by-pass (lock) that was washed away during the floods surrounding the Hurricane Irene and tropical storm that followed. Schoharie River valley got the worst of it. Entire villages were washed away, bad.

The route that crosses the river west of the town or in the town of Rotterdam Junction . . . on top of the falls or wier, and crosses over the lock for the Mohawk River . . . was washed away. They are dumping truck-loads of dirt. Thousands of cubic yards each day, I am sure, though I haven't counted. . . the Rte 5 lanes are messed up. Dusty. Dry. Orange cones are everywhere.

12 ft to go for the dirt/soil or fill to reach the road surface. Then they'll have to lay road bed, road surface, etc. check on the bridge structure (already done, I'm sure).

We pulled away from the wonderful sight and site, and moved east to Washout and started up the hill. We spent a good  15 minutes on the ride up, then down to Ridge. Left on Ridge after consulting an older couple out for a walk. The right on 147 toward town. The W. Glenville Rd. is  now repaired. They put in a culvert, repaved the road, another casualty of the monster rains.

It was getting colder and we went in and out of zones of warmer then cooler air as we moved along back toward town. Left on Bolt, right onto Swaggertown. Swaggertown until Van Buren raised the possbility of going across the Rexford Bridge. We surveyed the repairs to the underpass now being created and worked on. They uncovered the underpass stone work (which might just be cement). . . indicating the road went elsewhere or maybe there was another rail line . . . hard to imagine.

Cooler weather before too much longer.