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Kibby Pond

Friday Eric’s class visited the HP Fire Station as part of Fire Safety Week.  Kathryn joined the class.  They had several speakers and stations including going through a smoke house, holding a fire hose, checking out the ambulance, etc.  Eric asked a couple of questions from his Cub Scout book so he could satisfy a Cub [...]

St Regis Canoe Area – 11 Carries Trip

On Sunday 16 August Kathryn, Eric, Skip, Bob & I embarked on a tour of the St Regis Canoe Area via the 11 Carries Route.  The 7 Carries and 9 Carries Routes are popular ways to tour through Fish Pond. We lengthened the trip and did it counter clockwise by leaving from Upper St Regis Lake [...]

Moss Lake

I have had the itch to go camping for the past few weeks.  I missed going on a spring (April) camping trip.  We planned on canoeing on Little Black Creek for a daytrip, but that got pre-empted as well.  Finally, Skip and I planned a quick overnight shake down canoe camping trip for Friday night.  We [...]

Fall Scouting Trip

Two years ago we took a weekend for a car camping trip to scout possible canoe trips for the next year. We explored put ins and take outs and checked out lakes and ponds as camping destinations.  That lead us to a number of fun trips in 2007.  This weekend we are re-enacting the car camping [...]

Canoe Camping St Regis & Round Lake

Skip & I went to St Regis Canoe Wilderness area on Saturday AM. We launched from Hoel Pond, hopped over the RR into Turtle Pond and Slang Pond. We did the short portage into Long Pond and set up camp on the north shore across from the portage as it started to sprinkle rain. [...]