Good afternoon. Currently 69 degrees and partly cloudy in Glenfield on the Black River. A pleasant afternoon, doing a little fishing before I have to head back to the Cesspool. We have reached the likely high for day as cool fall like weather pattern sets in for week.

This morning was 38 degrees when I got up to run to the outhouse. The colder temperatures should start changing the colors in the Adirondacks soon. I’m sure in higher elevations like at Moose River Plains they are already seeing changing colors. A few hints of color up on the Tug Hill but not too much. Jesse was saying that the colors by now usually starting to turn around here in the higher elevations. The late summer has been unusually warm, pushing off the changing colors until official autumn. I don’t care, I kind of like the summer weather.

Had a nice breakfast on the grill and started a small fire to warm up and burn up the remaining garbage I forgot to burn last night. The fire was nice to warm up on the cold morning. Took down camp and stopped down at the Otter Creek at Eatonville Bridge. Too cold for swimming but the waterfall was pretty as always. Headed to the Black River in Glenfield to try my luck which despite some bites hasn’t been too good. I am upstream of Mark’s Dairy where the big manure spill happened a decade ago, impacting the fishery downstream even a decade later. It’s still a nice afternoon before I have to head back.