Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday 22nd June.

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

Last week we again headed south to the high plateau area where Angel Lake is the largest of several lakes and ponds.  For a few recent hikes we have been taking the time to establish some new hiking trails that give us access to places of interest including a high viewpoint on a grassy bluff and a couple of secluded lakes.  This time our plan was to clear a new trail to reach the south shore of a third and larger waterbody called South Gentian Lake.  We were able to do that quite quickly as the forest proved to be surprisingly free from underbrush.  We then continued north along the steep slope of the west shoreline and stopping for lunch on a spot quite high above the water until we reached an old logging road that crossed a narrow part of the lake on a low causeway. To return to the vehicles we used an old logging road and then the section of Anderson Bay Rd that runs through the forest down the east side. 

JD. 

The southern end of Gentian Lake, which lies about a kilometre to the west of Angel Lake.