September 15-18, 2015
Paul Conklin (Curtis Mayfly)
Should an Adirondack opportunity arise, I make sure to have a trip plan worked out and filed to memory. Therefore, when four days free of commitment and a fantastic weather forecast rolled around last week, I was ready to go. I would spend my time in the environs of Cage Lake in the Five Ponds Wilderness, an area I have not been to in 40 years. The approach would be from the southwest using the Middle Branch of the Oswegatchie River. From the north end of the Alder Bed Flow, it is only 1.2 miles to Cage Lake. A beaver vly held the potential of making much of this bushwhack paddelable. Topping the agenda would be finding the wreckage of a fighter jet that went down near Wolf Pond in the late 1970's. A second goal was to visit Little Otter Pond, getting me closer to my goal of making it to all of the Ponds within the Five Ponds Wilderness.
Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/114267878012874538920/TheWreckageOf590078
Paul Conklin (Curtis Mayfly)
Should an Adirondack opportunity arise, I make sure to have a trip plan worked out and filed to memory. Therefore, when four days free of commitment and a fantastic weather forecast rolled around last week, I was ready to go. I would spend my time in the environs of Cage Lake in the Five Ponds Wilderness, an area I have not been to in 40 years. The approach would be from the southwest using the Middle Branch of the Oswegatchie River. From the north end of the Alder Bed Flow, it is only 1.2 miles to Cage Lake. A beaver vly held the potential of making much of this bushwhack paddelable. Topping the agenda would be finding the wreckage of a fighter jet that went down near Wolf Pond in the late 1970's. A second goal was to visit Little Otter Pond, getting me closer to my goal of making it to all of the Ponds within the Five Ponds Wilderness.
Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/114267878012874538920/TheWreckageOf590078