Fish Ponds to Cod Pond Flow through trip 6/26/16 Adirondacks - With a special appearance!
Finally Judi and I had a day to ourselves for an adventure and we decided to do a through paddle. All preparations were done the night before and we hopped in the car at a little after 7. Dropping my car on the Rt. 8 end of the trip we made our way up the ever narrowing Bartman Rd. to the trailhead for Fish Ponds. On the way we noticed moose tracks in the dirt road. Caution should be used at the trail sign-in because of the yellow jacket nest in the top of the sign-in box.
A pleasant mostly downhill hike to the first of Fish Ponds.
There were a number of beaver dams between the first Fish Pond and the second, then there was the bushwhacks between Fish Ponds and the beginning of the Flow that could have been avoided with a little more preparation on my part but eventually we made it to the flow. We started noticing the many of the spatterdock and pond lily's leaves had been munched.
Did I mention that there were many beaver dams and the water level was low.
We estimated we did 20+ dams for the trip, but dang, it was a beautiful day!
And then we come down around a corner and about 40 feet away, on the other side of a small grassy island I see movement and stutter and sputter to Judi that there is a large moose right there! I scramble for my camera, Judi runs into me and backs off and the moose decides we were a little too close and noisy for him.
Stops to take inventory of what exactly it was dealing with.
And ambles off.
The rest of the day was spent hopping beaver dams and hiking out with huge smiles on our faces.
We did opt to take the snowmobile trail to cut off the loop of the flow and miss a few more dams and a short but tough carry, leaving us only 3 or 4 dams to get to the trail that would take us to the car and 2 cold Molsens.
Another great day to be out. The funny part is I spent 6 days paddling Algonquin Provincial Park in May expecting to see moose galore did not see one.
We got home around 8:30 pretty much exhausted and elated!
Finally Judi and I had a day to ourselves for an adventure and we decided to do a through paddle. All preparations were done the night before and we hopped in the car at a little after 7. Dropping my car on the Rt. 8 end of the trip we made our way up the ever narrowing Bartman Rd. to the trailhead for Fish Ponds. On the way we noticed moose tracks in the dirt road. Caution should be used at the trail sign-in because of the yellow jacket nest in the top of the sign-in box.
A pleasant mostly downhill hike to the first of Fish Ponds.
There were a number of beaver dams between the first Fish Pond and the second, then there was the bushwhacks between Fish Ponds and the beginning of the Flow that could have been avoided with a little more preparation on my part but eventually we made it to the flow. We started noticing the many of the spatterdock and pond lily's leaves had been munched.
Did I mention that there were many beaver dams and the water level was low.
We estimated we did 20+ dams for the trip, but dang, it was a beautiful day!
And then we come down around a corner and about 40 feet away, on the other side of a small grassy island I see movement and stutter and sputter to Judi that there is a large moose right there! I scramble for my camera, Judi runs into me and backs off and the moose decides we were a little too close and noisy for him.
Stops to take inventory of what exactly it was dealing with.
And ambles off.
The rest of the day was spent hopping beaver dams and hiking out with huge smiles on our faces.
We did opt to take the snowmobile trail to cut off the loop of the flow and miss a few more dams and a short but tough carry, leaving us only 3 or 4 dams to get to the trail that would take us to the car and 2 cold Molsens.
Another great day to be out. The funny part is I spent 6 days paddling Algonquin Provincial Park in May expecting to see moose galore did not see one.
We got home around 8:30 pretty much exhausted and elated!
