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1st Quarter 2020
NORTH WOODS NEWS
THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH WOODS CHAPTER
OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB
From our Chapter Chairperson Director’s Report
The Executive Committee met prior to the by Kathy O’Kane,
November 2019 Annual Meeting to discuss the North Woods Chapter Representative on the
budget, the 2019 donations, and all four vacant Adirondack Mountain Club Board of Directors
officer positions. It was recommended that the
2020 budget remain the same as the current year. Highlights of the Board of Directors Meeting on
Our thoughts on the donations were to give to December 9th include:
organizations that help expose youth to the
• Strategic Plan - This was approved at the June
outdoors and those who work on trail maintenance
Board of Directors Meeting to be reported on in
in all our catchment area; Tupper Lake, Saranac
early 2020. My interview with the consultant is
Lake and Lake Placid. With this in mind, a few scheduled for early January. If you have any
organizations we donated to last year were thoughts about the Adirondack Mountain Club that
removed from the list and then the other amounts you would like me to pass along please contact me
could be increased a bit. When presented to the at kokane51@gmail.com.
membership at the Annual Meeting, both the 2020
budget and the donation recommendations were • High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group -
voted on and passed with little discussion. The Adirondack Mountain Club is represented on
DEC’s new group to provide advice on sustainably
The Executive Committee acted as the managing public use in the Adirondack High Peaks.
Nominating Committee and was faced with all They will be meeting twice a month through June to
four officer positions being vacant. People were complete a strategic plan for the high peaks
approached about accepting the positions with no wilderness area. Summaries of meetings will be
published on the DEC website.
volunteers surfacing. I proposed that I would
continue as Chairperson and Kathy O’Kane as Co-
• 2019 Budget - While efforts have been made to
Chairperson if I did not have the responsibility of
generate additional revenue and closely monitor
the monthly meetings and recruiting a program operating expenses in the 2019 fiscal year, the
speaker. We will have one Annual Meeting in the budget will be out of balance at the end of 2019. To
Fall. Under these conditions, Susan Omohundro resolve the imbalance the Board voted to approve a
agreed to be Secretary and Elisabeth Craven will transfer of $185,000 of uncommitted funds from
fill the Treasurer spot.
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CHAPTER OFFICERS and Secretary: Susan Omohundro Conservation: John Omohundro
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Treasurer: Elisabeth Craven Membership: Elisabeth Craven
Chairman: Gretchen Gedroiz Director - Kathy O’Kane Newsletter: Jim Edmonds
Vice Chair: Kathy O’Kane Outings: Carol Edmonds Programs: Marilyn Gillespie
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From our Chapter Chairperson -continued
After much discussion at the Annual Meeting, Marilyn Gillespie volunteered to continue the pot luck
dinners with a speaker program as an Outing. These will not be monthly meetings with committee
reports, etc. but will be a gathering of interested folks similar to any other Outing. Committee Reports
will be in our quarterly newsletters for all to read. A special thank you to the Edmonds as the Outings
Schedule and Newsletter become more important in keeping our Chapter viable. They spend many
hours producing these documents that keep us all active and informed!
I’d also like to thank Lethe Lescinsky for her years of service as our Secretary and Peter Gillespie for
his many many years as Treasurer. It can’t be done without people who volunteer.
I know change isn’t easy but this new approach seems to be a good alternative for everyone involved.
Thank you to all who continue to volunteer in many other ways. This will be important to the North
Woods Chapter as we head into a new decade. Happy Holidays to all!
Gretchen
Director’s Report - continued
• investments to fund operations through the
remainder of the 2019 fiscal year
• 2020 Budget - The Board passed the following
2020 budget: Outings Schedule Corrections
$4,583,805 Operating Revenues * The 1st Quarter Outings Schedule, which North
$4,568,481 Operating Expenses Woods members received on December 17th,
contained two errors.
* This includes in excess of $200,000 from
undirected funds to offset proposed The January 27th, Wednesday, Cross Country
expenses. Ski to Pine Pond is actually planned for January
27, Monday … since this year January 27th is,
• Michael Barrett, the new ADK Executive in fact, a Monday.
Director, spoke to implementing tighter internal
controls to prevent over-spending while Similarly, the March 30, Friday, Snowshoe/Ski
acknowledging the challenges of the 2020 - Bartlett Pond - McConley Rd Trail outing is
budget. actually planned for March 27, Friday.
• Membership report for December continues to These, and any other corrections, changes or
hold steady at 17,200 member households. additions to the Schedule, can be found on the
North Woods Online Calendar which is
The next Board meeting is on March 28, 2020. available to North Woods Members.
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Conservation Report
Senator Betty Little and Assembly representative Doug Jones have co-authored a bill in Albany to declare the
Adirondacks a low salt area. State highways inside the Blue Line would be obliged to cut back on salt. We can
hope that there will be movement on this bill before Senator Little leaves office in December next year.
ADKAction, a regional advocacy group based in Saranac Lake with whom our chapter has been cooperating,
deserves some credit for the Little-Jones bill. I asked its acting director, Hannah Grail, how we could help. She
urged us to request that town and village governments sign the “hold-the-salt pledge.” Except for the tri-towns,
where we’re based, I’m not sure that’s the best role for us. I’ll find out which of the tri-town governments is
still not on the pledge, and your conservation committee will discuss how to approach them.
Another useful role the chapter can play is convincing our neighbors (and chapter members?) to accept a low-
salt policy. People have become used to driving fast in the winter. They’re going to have to adjust their habits.
There probably will be more accidents because people will resist change. This is going to be a hard sell. “What
do I get out of this except knowing that some homeowner in Gabriels gets less salt in his wells? Who cares
about aquifers I can’t even see?” (Doesn’t this sound also like our global climate change problem?)
The chapter could help in a public education campaign. We need to say: Low salt means smart salt, not no salt.
Roads will still be treated, but the timing, techniques, and machinery will all change. Driving for a half hour at
40 or 45 instead of 55 is only going to set one back about 7 to 11 minutes. I’m willing to write a commentary
for the local papers on behalf of the chapter. The conservation committee will meet to work on this. Join us
(send me your email address).
- John Omohundro, Conservation Chairman
omohunjt@northnet.org
The Intergalactic Solution
to the Global Problem
There’s a comet, way too big to ignore,
Comes out of nowhere, not heard of before,
It’s aiming straight for the Sun.
The Bard of Birch Street is an No point, you trying to run . . .,
Adirondack curmudgeon who rarely Climate change won’t be a problem no more.
speaks, but when he does, his every
- The Bard of Birch Street, ever on the alert
utterance is in the form of a limerick.
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The History Corner
by the History Guy
Plenty of Horses, A Dynamite Shack, and Two Outhouses
This fall I spent some time hiking and bushwhacking in the Hays (or Hayes) Brook truck trail region, and fell
down a rabbit hole. Figuratively speaking. I am often surprised by how much human history one can stumble
over in “the wilds.” Here’s just one example.
Map of Hays Brook/Sheep Meadow/Grassy Pond area showing features described in this article.
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Ginny and Ken West recall that everyone at Paul Smiths College referred to this area as "Lot 15," probably
referring to its position within Great Tract I, the Franklin County portion of Macomb's purchase, so-named at
the end of the 18th century.
Soon after passing the metal gate at the start of the truck trail, there's evidence of an old road off to the right.
This provided access to a tent platform on the south shore of Osgood River. There's still sign of a shack on the
south side of the road, known as the dynamite shack. If it really was for storing dynamite, were the charges used
to break up log jams during river drives in the area?
The walk to Grassy (or Grass) Pond has a long history as a logging road. It split at the south end of the pond.
The left fork crossed the pond's outlet where the beaver have built a dam. The original logging roads were
enhanced in the twentieth century, perhaps as late as the 1970s. Now four massive girders remain of the bridge
over this outlet. The right fork continued along the east side of the pond to a private hunting camp at the north
end of the pond. A trail had been illegally cut on state land to provide access from the east.
Michael Kudish reports that the state has been buying land in this area since 1877. However, Peter Gillespie has
a map showing that a square of land around Grassy Pond was still in Paul Smiths hands in 1985, a little island
of private land amidst a sea of Forest Preserve. Paul Smiths built two lean-tos. One lean-to was on the west
side, the other on the east side of the pond, on high banks with nice views (see map). For awhile thereafter the
area was actively logged. One sign of that is the old landing just before the trail arrives at the current lean-to.
The public was prohibited from the western lean-to but allowed to use the eastern lean-to. The state built the
current lean-to when it bought the land.
Instead of turning from the Hays Brook trail onto the trail to Grassy Pond, continue straight, or north, on
another logging road. Much Scots pine was planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression.
Planting restored an area where clearcutting, disease, or a fire had leveled everything. This region frequently
burned, due primarily to human activity. Surveyor Verplanck Colvin observed burning when he worked in the
region. Michael Kudish reports that when McColloms was settled for farming in 1849 it was known as "The
Burnt Land." After 1916 the white pine blister rust became another destroyer. A state tree nursery was
established in Lake Clear in 1902 and crews were planting white pine, red pine, and Scots pine for years to
regenerate the forest.
Where a small creek cuts under the Hays Brook road, a herd path to the east brought me quickly to the ruins of
an old tent platform. The permit sign amidst the ruins indicates who had leased the use of that platform from the
state (see photo). All the platforms came out of Forest Preserve after legislation in 1975. Permit-holder #1096
didn't clean up his site very well, as evidenced by the kitchen sink.
Back on the road, we cross Hays Brook at a foot bridge after which the road peters out, even on the maps.
That's untracked woods and swamp, so perhaps it never was developed.
Should one turn left, or west, near the trail junction to Grassy Pond, following the route the chapter sometimes
takes to Sheep’s Meadow, one walks a new (perhaps 1980s) trail. The older trail to the meadow leaves the Hays
Brook trail about a half-mile further north. That was an old snowmobile trail, and a few markers can still be
seen. Where the trail crosses Hays Brook, I found another outhouse, which probably accompanied a brookside
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tent platform that I didn’t find.
The trail today terminates at Sheep Meadow. There’s no historical record that anyone tended sheep there. Grass
may have grown there once, but it’s all ferns, blueberries, and moss now.
Peter Gillespie’s photo shows all that remains of a
tent platform site off the Hays Brook horse trail.
The first USGS map for the Hays Brook area was surveyed in 1902. That map shows a wagon road east from
McColloms, the tiny settlement directly to the west of Sheep Meadow on Route 30. McColloms has been
farmed since the Rices settled there in 1819. Amiel McCollom farmed from 1849. He and his neighbors
supplied the summer resort hotel in McColloms.
The road from McCollom's farm crossed the south end of the meadow and continued southeast to near where
Dan Brook joins Hays Brook. (See map). How could the road from McColloms cross over the Osgood River? If
one were to explore that area by boat, one might find the ruins of bridge abutments.
The horse barn at Sheep Meadow is related to the riding business once run out of McColloms. Farmers there
offered tourists trips on horseback and on sleighs along these woods roads and across the highway, into the
woods off Slush Pond Road. A few horse trail markers are still on trees on the Slush Pond trails. We saw fresh
droppings this fall, so equestrians are still using the roads.
North from the lean-tos at Sheep Meadow was an old snowmobile trail. It can be followed to the saddle beside
Star Mountain and then it fades away. Trail markers are still visible along it. Ginny and Ken West remember
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skiing this once, all the way to Meacham Lake.
As I left the meadow lean-tos and headed south along the trail, I discovered a pretty good trail entering on my
right. I followed it west awhile. It had clearly been cared for, because some blowdown had been chainsawed.
Was it an old snowmobile trail? Who uses it now? It's worth exploring further.
My adventures at Hays Brook remind me that people resided, logged, farmed, and traveled (and burnt) all over
this countryside. While Nature is constantly obliterating their work, traces remain— if you keep an eye peeled.
- The History Guy
Interesting Websites
Each issue we will try to suggest a few websites
which might be of interest to our members. If you
have one you would like to recommnd, please send
it to adknorthwoodsnews@gmail.com .
A Safety Note for Winter Hikers
from the Outings Committee Champlain Area Trail System The Champlain
Area Trail System, or “CATS Trails” is a resource
When making your plans, please keep in mind that that our Chapter makes frequent use of. You can
winter hikes often take far longer than summer learn all about it here: champlainareatrails.com
ones. Good conditions at the trailhead are not a
good indicator of conditions for the whole trail. It The Adirondack Almanack The Adirondack
is not unusual to encounter bare ground, ice and Almanack website is the online news journal of
deep snow all on the same trail. Be prepared for it Adirondack Explorer. Both are nonprofits devoted
all. Give yourself plenty of time. Do not join a to exploring, protrecting and unifying the
group if you have an early appointment in the Adirondack Park. Contributors include veteran
afternoon. It is never wise to hike alone, but it is local writers, historians, naturalists and outdoor
especially dangerous to turn around early and hike enthusiasts from around the Adirondack region.
back to your car alone in the winter. The mountains This websitye is (so far) 832 webpages of
are fantastically beautiful this time of year, but we interesting information about our area.
must be aware of their challenges. Find it here: adirondackalmanack.com
SAVE THE DATE
SEPTEMBER 18-20, 2020
The ADK Fall Outing Weekend will be held in the Old Forge/Inlet Area and hosted by
the Onondaga Chapter. Look for complete information in our 3rd Quarter Newsletter.
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TRIP REPORTS .... written by the Leaders of last quarter’s Chapter Outings
October 4, Hike Rattlesnake Mountain - Leaders:
Caper and Will Tissot
Seven of us set out on a rainy morning to hike
Rattlesnake Mountain, located just east of Willsboro
NY, about an hour-and-a-quarter’s drive from Saranac
Lake. We began on an old flat logging road, which
eventually rose to become a rocky, somewhat steep
trail. Happily, though, there are paths around the
more difficult parts of this climb. It is a short climb:
the entire round-trip is 3.2 miles in length. As we
hiked, the sun broke through in places, and by the
time we reached the top, it had stopped raining and
we were rewarded with a spectacular view of Lake Champlain and Vermont’s Green Mountains. We picnicked
on a large cliff directly above the lake before descending. While the High Peaks region behind us was in full
fall color, the trees in below us and in Vermont were all still green. A short hike, but well worth the drive.
October 8, Hike Wolf Pond - Leader: Denise Erwin
The hike into Wolf Pond was a smorgasbord for the senses. As soon as we hit the trail, we noticed how fast the
water in Wolf Pond Brook, swollen by the recent rain, was running, and how its sound echoed through the
woods. The scent of balsam permeated the air the entire 4.6 miles that we walked. The colors were vibrant, the
green moss was so green, the mushrooms, fungi, and leaves were highlighted by the deep blue sky, and the sight
of Wolf Pond and the nearby High Peaks topped it all off. This is one of the finest hikes in the Adirondacks.
The trailhead to Wolf Pond is situated 12 miles west of Exit 29 of the Northway, on the Blue Ridge Road,
immediately before the road crosses the Boreas River.
October 9, Wednesday Walk and Lunch: Heaven Hill - Leader: Kathy O’Kane
It was a crisp fall morning as we headed
out on the trails of Heaven Hill. (The
Heaven Hill trail system, which is owned
and maintained by the Uihlein
Foundation, is a community preserve
located near the Village of Lake Placid.)
There were nine of us, and several had
never been on the Heaven Hill trails, so it
was a new experience for some. A walk
through the woods on the Bear Cub Loop
trail was then supplemented with a
circumambulation of the Big Field Loop
trail. The trails are short, generally flat,
and well signed. In keeping with the time
of year the ground was covered with leaves and the foliage color had turned to the yellow-brown stage, but it
was still beautiful. After our walk of about an hour we adjourned for lunch at The Big Slide.
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October 15, Wednesday Walk and Lunch: Cobble Lookout - Leader: Kathy O’Kane
We moved this Wednesday outing up to Tuesday owing to the (mostly accurate) weather forecast. There are not
enough superlatives to describe our Cobble Ledge walk. Although it was a bit frosty and windy when we
started out on the 1.3-mile walk to Cobble Ledge, it warmed up nicely, and with the proper clothing the wind
was no bother. We enjoyed the walk through the woods, with the leaves gathering on the trail and falling from
the trees. The view towards the Champlain Valley offered more vibrant color than we had expected. We
followed our walk up with lunch at The Cottage in Lake Placid.
October 19, Hike Horseshoe Lake
to Hitchins Pond
Leaders: Susan and John Omohundro
A blue sky lit up the excellent fall colors in
the trees. Our trip had an historical theme:
industrialist A. A. Low bought up thousands
of acres here in the 1880s and began a highly
diversified operation involving lumber, maple
sugar, berry preserves, hydropower, and
bottled spring water. All of it was shipped by
train down to New York City—except the
hydropower, which was offered to Tupper
Lake in addition to being used by Low to run
his operations. The road we walked was the
bed of his railroad to the operations at
Hitchins Pond. We noticed several spurs branching off. But the search for his marble-floored maple syrup
factory failed in the heavy underbrush and leaf litter. And no trace remains of his pet cemetery on the shore—
snapping turtles nest there now. We did, however, discover a water pump-house high on the hill over his three
guest houses and three-storey staff house.
October 21, Paddle Massawepie Lake
Leader: Gretchen Gedroiz
What a perfect paddle so late in the season! There were seven of
us, and we were feeling very lucky to be out on very flat water on
Massawepie Lake in the sunshine. We paddled the perimeter of
the lake, listening to loons calling back and forth to one another
in the distance. There was a number of mergansers standing on a
log as we passed by: who knew they have bright orange feet? We
were surprised by a very big eagle we must have flushed from a
shoreline tree, who flew over us. We stopped at our usual
campsite for lunch, and lingered in the sun. There was a bonus
treat yet to come: as we paddled to the take-out, there were two
eagles sitting in an old dead tree, probably having as great a day
as we were We were all thankful to be taking advantage of living
in the Adirondacks.
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October 23, Wednesday Walk and Lunch: Osgood Pond - Leader: Kathy O’Kane
I was worried that after a night of rain
and wind, the walk at Osgood/Church
Ponds would be ruined by the rosy
forecast . . . But the forecasters were in
fact correct, and the morning cleared, it
was sunny, and we had no wind. The
temperatures were in the high 40s, but
with sun and no wind the morning was
beautiful. We wandered on the Red and
Yellow Dot trails at Osgood and Church
Ponds for about 2.5 miles all told. The
trails were covered with pine needles
and wet leaves, and the woods were still.
The seven of us walked and chatted,
with never enough up or down to require us to catch our breath. We finished the morning with lunch at the
Pack Basket in Gabriels.
October 30, Wednesday Walk and Lunch: the Paul Smith’s VIC - Leader: Kathy O’Kane
What a surprise this morning when we arrived at the VIC for our walk on the Blue Heron Marsh Trail: it was
closed—the VIC was closed!! All the trails were closed due to logging activity. It never occurred to me to call
ahead and make sure the VIC would be open. After a bit of last-minute figuring, and taking into account our
participants, we decided to do the Red Dot/Yellow Dot trails at Osgood Pond again. We had just done this
walk the week before, but it is surprising how much a location can change from week to week. Despite the
dullness of the day and the fact that now the leaves on the ground were all brown, it was a pleasant walk with
good company. Our merry band was reduced to three of us for lunch, as others in the group had commitments
elsewhere, but the food at the Lake Clear Airport was excellent.
November 6, Hike Split Rock Mountain - Leader: Elisabeth Craven
We had a beautiful day, with temperatures in the low 40s and blue skies, the best day of the week. So we
lucked out. Six of us participated. We did not go via the Calamity trail. When we arrived at the trailhead,
hunters told us that the wet area had been totally flooded following the Halloween storm, so instead we took the
Barn Rock trail. There were some blow-downs, but it was in good condition overall. We had lunch in the sun,
relishing a wonderful view of Vermont and the Lake.
November 15, Ski: “Where do the tracks go?”
Leader: Gretchen Gedroiz
I had skied the railroad bed from Route 30 in Rainbow Lake past
the lake out into the bog headed to Onchiota and back when my
mother lived in that area. I thought it would be interesting to walk
it in the late Fall. As it happened, the outing took a couple of
surprising turns. As you will have realized from the date of this
outing, the “walk” wasn’t a walk at all, but instead a ski. The other
surprise came that morning, when I tried to figure out why my
windows overlooking my deck were wet. It was raining, despite
my constant checking of the weather forecast, a prediction that said
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there would be snow showers in the afternoon. Typical of our Chapter members, everyone was game to head
out anyway, hoping that it wouldn’t be raining where we were going. And indeed it was a very light rain
freezing in the tracks Pati and I had made the day before, which just made it a faster ski. We skied out for an
hour, passing the lake on our left and going through some beautiful rust-colored bogs—until one of our skiers
said “how long do we have to do this?” I knew then that I had lost the crowd. So, we turned around and headed
back. We all voted for lunch at the Packbasket, where we discussed an alternative to the route we had taken, to
start farther out and ski through Onchiota. I’d lost them that day, but had them hooked for a future outing.
Where do those tracks go?
November 18, Hike the Whiteface Waterfall and Flume Trails - Leader: Carol Edmonds
I had scouted out this hike last
summer. At that time the trail was
obvious, and there was even a
conspicuous sign directing hikers to
the trail. However, now that it’s
winter (and the ski season is getting
underway), the sign is gone. We
found the trail anyway, but we were
the first ones there since the recent
snow, and were soon breaking trail.
In just a few minutes we found
ourselves “misplaced,” and had to
scramble down a steep hill to get
back to the real trail. From there it
was a short, relatively steep walk
next to Stag Brook, past numerous
waterfalls and cascades. At this
point they were covered with ice
curtains with water flowing under,
over, and around them. Some of us ventured near the bottom of the biggest waterfall, but we all got good views
of it. At the end we crossed the brook on a bridge and followed what seemed to be a trail down the other side.
However, it soon led to a stream crossing that was too sketchy in the icy conditions, and we made our way out
by walking down a ski trail. After this adventure we headed down the road to the Flume trails. From the
parking lot there are numerous choices for hiking on both easy and hard trails. We chose an easy loop that kept
us close to nice views of the Ausable River. We ended the hike by crossing a very large beaver dam while
managing to stay dry. This area has many opportunities for interesting hiking. We also felt that Stag Brook
would be great place to visit during Spring run-off.
November 20, Mystery Hike - Leaders: Susan and John Omohundro
Ten of us congregated at the RR crossing at the east end of Saranac Lake. The rest is secret. Oh, all right, we'll
say a little more: we walked through a lovely red pine plantation to the shores of Lake Oseetah, our senses open
to perceive what we might. One thing we saw: little spider web strands hung down from the trailside hemlock
branches, on which snow crystals had collected like pearls on a string. We saw a scattering of magnificent
white pines. There were also animal tracks and human tracks to observe. We repaired to McKenzie Grill for
lunch and commiseration about human frailty.
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December 17, Hike Copperas
Pond - Leader: Carol Edmonds.
It was snowing, but that did not
deter ten hardy souls from heading
up to the Copperas Pond lean-to.
The trail was covered in a couple
of inches of snow, with an
undercoating of ice lurking
beneath. We all had ice traction
devices of some kind with us, so
this was not a problem.
Unfortunately though, the trail is
rocky, and the snow hid the rocks
and roots. As the leader I felt it
was my duty to demonstrate the
danger this posed by falling
several times. We were all
interested in a leisurely hike as an
antidote to the hectic holiday
season. We stopped to admire the huge glacial erratic with a tree growing on top, Owens Pond, the big beaver
pond and dam, and the Copperas Pond campsite. Finally arriving at the lean-to, we quickly got a fire going.
Some of us cooked hot dogs and sausages while others munched on sandwiches. We topped the meal off with
roasted marshmallows. Although the trail has little net elevation gain, there are quite a few ups and downs, and
there was some muttering that it was not as flat as advertised. Nevertheless, we all made it back to the cars safe
and sound. It was a great day in the woods.
December 20, Cross-country Ski,
Conley Road Pond Trail -
Leader: Gretchen Gedroiz
The temperature was -13 when we
got up that morning, but 6 of us
were brave enough nevertheless to
head out, knowing as we did that
the snow conditions would be
perfect after a couple of days of
snow flurries. The trail had been
broken for us, and we had a nice
kick ‘n glide through the beautiful
snow-covered trees with that deep
blue winter sky and bright sunshine.
We kept moving and stayed warm
with the promise of a nice lunch at
the CAVU café at the airport. We
all agreed it was well worth it!
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