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Welcome to National Trail Mix Day!
National Trail Mix Day features a high energy, tasty treat for the trail or snacks. You can buy packages of trail mix at a store. Or, you can make up your own, using the ingredients you like best.
When you head out to a campout, a hike or to go biking, take the Trail Mix along with you. It provides the extra energy boost to keep you from getting tired and running out of energy along the trail. Don't limit trail mix to the trail. It is also good at campouts.
Here is a fun way that the Boy Scouts make Trail Mix:
Ask each hiker or camper to bring a box or bag of their favorite cereal, nuts, pretzels, raisins, dried fruit, M&Ms, etc. For younger hikers or new members of the group, it's best to provide them with a list of the types of food that can go into trail mix. That way, the inexperienced hiker won't bring something that can not be easily carried. At the campout or before the hike, bring the group together and mix all the food in a big, big bowl. Put the mix into sealable baggies and pass them out to each hiker.
Tips: When making your own trail mix, avoid messy items that leave your hands sticky. Also avoid too many salty items. For example, unsalted nuts are better than salted ones.
SU News
Swaggy G is Going to the Olympics for Nigeria (TNIAAM; Leathersich)
Michael Gbinije and head coach Jim Boeheim might be together in Rio next summer -- but they won't be representing the same country.
Gbinije and the Nigerian basketball team won the AfroBasket 15tournament, Africa's biannual basketball tournament, defeating the heavy favorite Angola 74-65 and guaranteeing a spot in next year's Olympics. It is Nigeria's first AfroBasket title.
The Syracuse Orange basketball senior had five points and three rebounds in 15 minutes of play during the game, including a deep three to give Nigeria a 56-39 lead. On the tournament, he averaged 7.3 points per game, 2.1 rebounds per game, and 1.6 assists per game.
"It's a big swag booster for me," Gbinije told syracuse.com earlier Sunday. "I can refer to myself as an Olympian."
He can thank his dad for that title, too: Gbinije's father, Frank, is a native of Nigeria and was able to get his son a try out for the team. And he made the team (obviously) despite the fact that he has never even been to Nigeria.
But that doesn't take away from the fact that he now has a gold medal and is packing his bags for Brazil in 2016.
"Playing on this team was a unique experience for me," Gbinije said. "Overall, I enjoyed playing with these guys."
Maybe this will give him some new-found perspective on the game and dominate the ACC in his senior year? Maybe Nigeria has some tricks up its sleeve that ole Jimbo never thought of for USA? Either way, congrats to Michael Gbinije. He joins a small club of Syracuse hoops players to be invited to the Olympics.
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Niko and Farah on Observation Desk of Space Needle in Seattle
SU Fan Challenge: Show Us Pictures of You in Summer Advantages Wearing SU Gear (PS; Axe)
The New York State Fair has arrived and summer has almost come to a close.
That's good news for Syracuse University sports fans as that means fall is near and a new SU sports season will soon be underway.
Before the games get going again, we want to see where you took your "Orange Pride" this summer.
Thanks to those who have submitted your photos so far, but we want to see more!
» Mobile app users, see the full gallery here.
Did you wear a Syracuse sweatshirt to the top of Mt. Marcy?
Did you take your Otto to Toronto?
Did you read Jim Boeheim's book on the beach?
Did you run a marathon in your "Marathon Men" T-shirt?
Send us your photos from your summer adventures in your Orange gear!
How to get your photos on syracuse.com:
Upload your photos to syracuse.com:
1) Take a photo. Sign in to syracuse.com using your syracuse.com community account. If you don't have an account, you can register for free.
2) Upload your photo to syracuse.com. In the caption, tell us a little bit about the photo.
3) You can also post your photos right in the comments section below. Just click the photo icon in the bottom left corner of the comment box to choose your images. (Note: Photos are moderated before publication and may take a moment to show for other users.)
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Rethinking West Street, Built for a Highway That Never Happened (PS; Kirst)
Avante Owens hadn't saved enough money for the bus, so he walked home last Thursday after football practice at the Institute of Technology, at Syracuse Central. He used West Street, the most direct route, even though it cut down on his options: It's a busy street, with a long stretch where pedestrians hoping to cross from one side to the other don't have the benefit of a stoplight.
Near Otisco Street, Avante paused to contemplate the traffic signals for a new crosswalk, set to go into operation Monday. "Would I use it, if you could cross without cars coming?" Avante asked.
"Yes!" he said, answering his own question, with emphasis.
For as long as he remembers, crossing in that area of West Street has been an anxious, risky proposition. A half-century ago, engineers and civic officials weren't thinking about 15-year-olds, walking home, when they began the work that did away with what had been a two-lane street.
The state built West Street in the early 1960s, at a cost of almost $3 million. According to records at the Onondaga Historical Association, more than 110 buildings were knocked down to create the West Street arterial, six lanes of traffic from Herald Place to West Onondaga Street, an arterial at the core of an expansive highway dream:
West Street would become one leg in a downtown "Inner Loop" for motorists, joined by Adams Street, Interstate 81 and Interstate 690. The larger goal was allowing motorists to jump onto West Street and travel south to Seymour Street, which would be widened into a "connector," leading toward a western highway that never happened known as the Geddes Expressway.
You see a remnant of the plan in ramps for Route 695 that seem to end at West Genesee Street, in Fairmount. If it had all come together, that stretch of highway would have merged into an expressway sweeping all the way toward the farmland and housing tracts of Onondaga, a highway linked to I-81 and known generically as the "western bypass."
