We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we had dull cloudy weather with a very unpleasantly cold wind for our hike. We decided to explore an area to the north of Russ Creek where quite a lot of logging has been going on over the last year or more. Our first attempt to explore a new road lead very quickly to a dead end in the middle of a very large clearcut, so we reversed direction and returned to our vehicles. It had been far from comfortable walking in a very open area with such a cold wind blowing and we were glad to drive downhill into the forest hoping that our next new logging road would be less windy. Parking at the start of a recently rebuilt logging road on the left we started on what proved to be a very long uphill climb that took us along winding roads nearly 700 ft higher. This certainly warmed us up very nicely and we were lucky to find a lunch spot beside an active beaver dam with no wind at all. However, the very surprising thing was that the still air was full of tiny gnats that swarmed around us as if it was a hot summer day! The beaver lodge was quite a new one and there were fresh beaver paths going off in different directions from the dam. Not far away was a lake without a name that we have hiked to a couple of times in the last two years.
My photo was taken on the new logging road near the top of the ridge not far from the end.
JD.
Hiking the long new logging road that ended not far from a beaver pond on the far side of the ridge at the top of the picture.
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