Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 8th November.

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am

Last week we drove along the road to Masck Farm and parked at the second gravel pit on the right after the farm turnoff . We started by hiking along an old abandoned logging road that we used regularly until a severe winter storm dropped masses of trees across it and we used a longer route to get around the blockages.  First stop of interest on our way to the lunch spot was the large lake, created by a substantial beaver dam built several decades ago I believe, that we used to call Trailer Lake.  Then somehow it got blown up in what I assume to be a propane gas explosion and the trailer now only exists as a debris field of thousands of pieces large and small. 

Close by the trail is the short but quite high beaver dam.  It's in good shape and the water level was at the highest possible level.  Not far away the beaver are clearly in residence as since our visit last year they have added greatly to the pile of sticks that forms their lodge.

JD.

     

An extra large beaver lodge at the edge of Blown Up Trailer Lake.