Today, Tredhed and I did our annual "shakedown" hike at one of our favorite little trailheads in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest. After some light maintenance at the Hamilton County Mosquito Preserve, we hit the Georgia Brook trailhead on Rt.8 just outside of Wells.
Quickly putting on our snowshoes and cinching up our packs, we headed up the trail to sign in at the lightly used register. The blue disked trail climbed a hundred feet to a junction with the Georgia Brook trail and an abandoned snowmobile trail.
When we were last here, 363 days ago (http://www.adkforum.com/showthread.php?t=24945) , we turned left to follow the Georgia Brook trail. Today, we turned right to follow the abandoned snowmobile trail down the hill towards Georgia Brook.
The bridge that was here during my last visit in the spring of 2015 was long gone. Only the ice on Georgia Brook and the numerous tag alders greated us this day.
Fortunately, Tredhed was able to find a great ice bridge across the brook and we were soon on our way up a most beautiful trail.
Along the way, we noticed an unauthorized and unpermitted dwelling on state land :eek:
Having no cell service, we decided to call DEC later on this egregious infraction. :D
Soon enough, it was time to turn off the trail and explore the small, 6' waterfall on Cotter Brook.
While the falls were almost completely frozen, they made a good place to check our troubles and forget about the hectic holiday season for a few minutes.
All that was left to do was retrace our steps back to Rt. 8 and head on out. It was a great couple hours in the woods testing our snowshoes and reacquainting ourselves with the intricacies of crossing blowdown, turning around, backing up and generally not falling on our butts. To celebrate our success, we hoisted a pint of Fiddlehead IPA :boozing: at George Henry's in Warrensburg. Huzzah!
Quickly putting on our snowshoes and cinching up our packs, we headed up the trail to sign in at the lightly used register. The blue disked trail climbed a hundred feet to a junction with the Georgia Brook trail and an abandoned snowmobile trail.
When we were last here, 363 days ago (http://www.adkforum.com/showthread.php?t=24945) , we turned left to follow the Georgia Brook trail. Today, we turned right to follow the abandoned snowmobile trail down the hill towards Georgia Brook.
The bridge that was here during my last visit in the spring of 2015 was long gone. Only the ice on Georgia Brook and the numerous tag alders greated us this day.
Fortunately, Tredhed was able to find a great ice bridge across the brook and we were soon on our way up a most beautiful trail.
Along the way, we noticed an unauthorized and unpermitted dwelling on state land :eek:
Having no cell service, we decided to call DEC later on this egregious infraction. :D
Soon enough, it was time to turn off the trail and explore the small, 6' waterfall on Cotter Brook.
While the falls were almost completely frozen, they made a good place to check our troubles and forget about the hectic holiday season for a few minutes.
All that was left to do was retrace our steps back to Rt. 8 and head on out. It was a great couple hours in the woods testing our snowshoes and reacquainting ourselves with the intricacies of crossing blowdown, turning around, backing up and generally not falling on our butts. To celebrate our success, we hoisted a pint of Fiddlehead IPA :boozing: at George Henry's in Warrensburg. Huzzah!
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