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”.