[Waymninelia]

I often submit posts about orchids that are found here or there near hinckley reservoir and I realized yesterday
that I'd never posted any pics of it. yesterday I went to grant fen near the east edge, drove around some of
the back dirt roads checking things out and headed over to the 'jones road' sites where there are orchids.
on the way back down rt365 I noticed that you could see some of the adirondack mountains up one of
the reservoir 'valleys' so turned around to get some merged pics. Hinckley is one of two dammed reservoirs
(one out of commission by design) on top of that 'hill'; this one supplies much of the drinking water for the
general utica area and alot of the drainage goes to supply water to the newer version of the erie canal
(ny barge canal). the water is very clean. hinckley reservoir isn't completely in the adirondack park, but
I believe the northeastern section is.

the main image is a merge of 9 pictures, so may take a little bit to load if you have a slow connection
(and you will have to scroll to the right)

there are a few other pictures that I'll submit in reply posts


if you look up the furthest upper valley in about the third frame, you can
see a good number of the closest peaks of the adirondack park back in the mist

the camera position is at the lower left 'elbow' of the reservoir. there is also more area to the right
where the park is and the dam to the far right. there actually is a boating area below the spillway
area of the dam where you can boat and fish. the dam also has a small power generator inside
of it which supplies some local electricity