Sunday, September 27, 2015
(We hiked the "first" section of the Towpath Trail that follows the old Ohio & Erie Canal on
July 6, 2014 from Harvard Road to the Marcy Trestle. We started at the Canalway Center near the trestle and walked to the overpass of Route I-77 on
November 9, 2014. On
December 26, 2014, we walked between the I-77 overpass and Quaker Steak on Canal Road in Valley View.)
This time we walked the Ohio & Erie Canalway Towpath Trail between Quaker Steak on Canal Road in Valley View and Lock 38.
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| Former Valley View Schoolhouse (c. 1940) at 6075 Canal Road |
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Thornburg Station, the northern end of the
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad |
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At this point, the Cuyahoga River was
perhaps 20 feet below the level of the towpath |
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| Lock 39 and its bypass |
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| Ardea herodias/Great Blue Heron |
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| Lock 39 and the iron strap to hold the pivoting end of the lock gate |
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| The bypass looks like it could be a fun waterslide |
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| A waste weir to rid the canal of excess water when it rises above 4 feet |
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| Art Deco-ish Stone Road bridge (1950) |
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| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae/New England Aster |
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| Lock 39 still has its gates |
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| Lock 39 (and the lockkeeper!) |
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| Linaria vulgaris/Yellow Toadflax or Wild Snapdragon |
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| Solidago gigantea/Giant or Late Goldenrod (Achoo!) |
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Time for the Oncopeltus fasciatus/
Large Milkweed Bugs |
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| Backtracking past Lock 38 |
Monday, September 28, 2015
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| Harvest Moon, it looks more like Halloween |
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