Another Southern Adirondacks hike - Clockmill Pond and Rock Lake

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Today was another relatively warm late October day with a forecast of increasing clouds and maybe a shower. Turns out that the forecast was wrong and it turned out to be partly cloudy with no rain at all. I decided to hike into an area that I hadn’t been in a while. It’s in the Ferris Lake Wild Forest so I’ll be following a snowmobile trail for much of the day.

Today‘s route on the left side

Early on the trail … lots of leaves on the trail, hiding rocks and other treasures

A meadow just off the trail

More of the trail as the woods opened up

Side trail to Clockmill Pond

Clockmill Pond through the trees

A view of the pond

I bushwhacked around the left side of the pond to get another view

I thought this shot looked pretty cool …

Looking up

On the trail to Rock Lake

Rock Lake through the trees

Something interesting along the trail

Rock Lake … which is smaller that Clockmill Pond. Go figure.

stream feeding into Rock Lake

Small beaver dam on the creek

a very old Snowmobile trail marker, pre-1970 when the Conservation Department became the Department of Environmental Conservation. It’s also a metal trail marker, DEC markers are reflective plastic now

Somebody has been very busy

Sunlight hitting a green fern

Six miles today. Met one person on my way in, a hunter who was giving up for the day. “Too warm, nothing’s moving at all”.