Fish Pond esker

On the nine carries route yesterday, one of the highlights was the esker part of the portage to Ochre pond. We spent most of the previous day watching 2 inches of rain come down while sitting in the north lean-to on Fish. We got up early and headed up the esker. We walked along under the white pines and hemlock. There were a dozen different wildflowers and even more mushrooms. Tremendous ecosystem on that ridge. Sorry we missed the lady slipper orchids by a couple weeks, although we missed the black flies too. We did linger a bit, even though we were ready to get the 1.2 mile carry behind us.