WHAT A WEEK!

My posts are backing up on me! After another action packed weekend, I'm finally making time to post the latest happenings.

Friday morning we left Bays Mountain and meandered around Lakeside Trail where we passed by inspection of a very curious doe, then stopping along the way at a few cool sites. The beavers are working overtime now and these pictures do not do justice! We took Food Plot down to the lake, where we came upon what I think was a Maple tree, chewed through on both sides, sap having streamed from its scarrs turned into a very nasty jelly which is probably why the beavers didn't finish this one up. A few yards away lay another downed tree and we believe that the beavers must have gotten hold of a measuring stick for all the sections were close to the same length!

Later we continued along LakeSide trail and took a short cut off trail to an old grave yard. It was a very odd feeling, standing there, a place that very few people knew of. We saw several stones placed in the area, two of which were inscribed, however, only one was ledgable. It was the marker of a three year old child (JWH?) who was born in 1908 yet died in 1911.

April and I broke from the pack on the way back to the dam and headed for a moment of quiet reflection at the ecology ponds before heading back to the parking lot and a quick detour to the lower waterfall from the dam where we took one quick shot. Total hike was 4.4 miles.