Adirondack camping trip

Lumberjim and I, and a couple of friends, just returned from a camping/kaying trip to Old Forge, NY.
We arrived to find a really nice camp site right on the private lake.



Conveniently located within the camp site was a handy little 2 room cabin, with bath and kitchen.



Great views

More nature stuff...















At the camp site, we had a resident duck couple (Sid and Nancy), a chipmunk couple (Chip and Dale, obviously), and a bullfrog. Him name Hopkin...





Dale



The chipmunks have no fear of humans, they come up and sniff your toes if you sit still, and they sit in the middle of the road until you give up and drive around them.

Ooooooh.

Must win lottery ...

Very pretty. I like the green one two up from the deer.

Mmmmm....nature stuff.

I particularly like the shot with the pink clouds reflected in the water.

We kayaked in the rain... didn't have much choice since it rained every $#@& day we were there. It actually let up a little while we were kayaking, which brought the moose-sized mosquitos out in numbers, so we were glad when it started up again.

These 2 were actually having fun and not nearly as miserable as they look.







Portage





Before we were back in the water after portage, we saw a doe and her fawn across the river. The doe kept leaping/bounding away, but the tiny fawn couldn't make it up the bank and so she kept coming back. The fawn was scared and bleating for help, racing back and forth across the bank, at one point slipping on a rock and falling completely under water, the mom was agitated, jumping around and making her coughing noises, I was trying to figure out how I was going to get across the river to help the baby without a paddle which were still back at the other end of the portage, and Jim took some pictures.







Made it

Very nice! So minty fresh! Makes me want to shoulder-up the ol' canoe and make a four day trip of it. Just being there on the water is magical-life problems become remote, you can think more clearly, breath deeper--oh, yeah, and swat formative misquitoes. Looks like fun. It's sooooooo nice to get away!

Beautiful..thanks Jinx. :biggrin:
Looks like it might be good fishing too. Paddling in a light rain you might get wetter from sweat under those plastic raincoats than from the rain without them.....warmer though.

very nice!

You've nibbled on my dope patch for the last time, bitch!

I must say that those pictures make your trip sound wonderful! Thank you for sharing with me.

NBN once again puts things in perspective. A warped perspective, but perspective nonetheless.

My personal vision of the picture of the deer involved placement of the crosshairs ...

I've never had the urge to kill something beautiful. Capturing it with the camera is far more satisfying, in my opinion.

That was pretty cool. we'd never heard a deer before. I'd always assumed that they were silent, but the noises were quite cow-like. makes sense, i guess.

That was a fun river. it's very slow and deep and flat. you stop if you don't continue to paddle. We've done the Brandywine locally, and while it's pretty tame itself, you could coast in most places if you were so inclined. Carrying 3 kayaks 250 yards down a trail and over that bridge kinda sucked, but it was great exercise.

Mr Tickner, the guy who rented Matt his boat, and carted us 8 miles up river said that it was a great day for it. As it was raining pretty steadily, i wondered about that. figgered he was just making small talk, but then when it let up for a bit, and the mosquitos came out, it made much more sense. This time of year is supposed to be blackfly season up there. The rain most likely spared us many many bites. plus it was nice and cool even though we were paddling nonstop. Jinx took us past the turn off about 1/8 of a mile to show us where she fell off a train trestle as a young lass, so we had to paddle against the current right at the end of the trip. my arms and shoulders were toast that night. yay advil.

It's such a cool little town. We're definitely going back to see it in the winter this year.

Vacations like this make me want to quit my job and try to eek it out in poverty in some back woods town. then i think about it, and it makes me want to make enough dough to have a place i can go and pretend that instead.

I don't know how it is back East, but here in Grandview, MO, deer have become pretty much large vermin. A day doesn't go by that someone doesn't vaporize one (and have their car, and often themselves) vaporized as a result. I have deer in my driveway sometimes, and I hardly live in a rural area. In fact, I lived in this exact same house 30 years ago when it was far less suburban and closer to rural, and never saw a single deer.

It isn't that I don't love them...I do. They're gorgeous and very cool to observe...but I have to dodge them almost every day and night.

lumberjim wrote:

.....we'd never heard a deer before. I'd always assumed that they were silent, but the noises were quite cow-like. makes sense, i guess.......

the doe will also "snort" when they smell something that could be harmful to them. when i was a kid hunting in south texas you'd know your cover was blown when they started their "snorting"

Yes, El, we have mobile speed bumps here in PA. Probably lots more than you do, since we're overrun with liberals who don't understand that a "controlled hunt" is a good thing.

I-80 running the length of PA takes something like 60,000 deer each year. I haven't heard any numbers for the PA Turnpike but I'm sure it's significant.
Yet they still increase like topsy. :eek:

Speaking of topsy ... one of my friend's daughter's deer encounters on the PA turnpike (somewhere between Lehigh Valley and Lansdale) involved her flipping her car.

The deer was in pieces.

Damn, those deer are breeding like rabbits. Can the Jackalope be far behind? We must act now!