Mystery Map XI Revealed
Mystery Map XI has been revealed! The original unedited map is pictured above showing Wind Resources for the state of New York. The maps were developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and TrueWind in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America program. Maps like these are often involved in the...
Mystery Map X Revealed
Price Chopper vs. Wegmans Supermarkets Spend a lifetime in your Saratoga Springs Price Chopper supermarket and you might overhear but a murmur—while Price Chopper markets abound in Saratoga (we have three!), upstate New York’s other supermarket titan, Wegman’s, is entirely absent. That murmur thus begs the question: why is Price Chopper Saratoga’s dominant supermarket? Where...
Mystery Map IX Revealed
This week’s Mystery Map traces the geographic distribution of Stewart’s convenience-shop businesses. Stewart’s is a family-owned business based in Saratoga Springs. Operations began in 1945, when the Dake family purchased a dairy shop from Donald Stewart of Ballston Spa. That year, the first Stewart’s ice cream shop opened on Route 50, in Ballston Spa. In...
Mystery Map VIII Revealed
Here is the solution to Mystery Map VIII. On Skidmore’s campus and beyond, debate rages concerning the morality, feasibility, and economic dynamics of the hydraulic fracturing of shales, or “fracking”—the process of fracturing deeply buried shales to exploit otherwise-inaccessible gas resources. In spite of heated discourse on the issue, however, many people lack a fundamental...
Mystery Map VII Revealed
We’re back, and after unleashing the mystery map and scattering a few hints we have a winner. Nick L-S correctly guessed that Mystery Map VII was of canine feces in the North Woods. Dog poop may seem like a strange thing to map, but it is tied up in all sorts of things from public...
Mystery Map VI Revealed
Colton Harris-Moore caught the attention of the press internationally and sensationally when he escaped from a halfway house in Washington and made a trail of burglaries and thefts including cars, boats, and planes. He got his infamous nickname by leaving behind foot prints at some of his stops. His life as a fugitive began on...
Mystery Map V Revealed
Please click the map to see an enlarged version of it. Wow! Congrats to everyone who correctly guessed that our map displayed the lights on campus. Apparently we made this one too easy.
Mystery Map IV Revealed
Click the image to view it enlarged. Skidmore College is offering a class this semester titled Sustainable Mobility Solutions. The class has been collaboratively researching how students and faculty move around on and off campus as well as identifying the mobility problems on campus. The aim is to provide plans and projects to improve Skidmore...
Mystery Map III Revealed
The previous mystery map documented red eft sightings
Last Week’s Mystery Map Revealed
The first image from last week’s mystery map is by Jeremy Wood whose website can be found here. All of the lines on this map were drawn by foot with 238 miles of GPS tracks. Notice the text and the compass in this map. Here’s a link to Traverse Me which goes into greater detail...
Mystery Map Revealed
The temperature of soil in developed areas is generally higher than undeveloped land at between 4-5pm on a sunny day. This can be seen on Skidmore campus where buildings and parking lots cause local temperatures to be elevated. The difference between temperatures is remarkable; soil in the North Woods is in some cases 8 degrees...
