I really love it when trash piles start looking like this. In a couple of minutes, I'll toss on a few more logs, to make sure the rest of the crap burns hot, then use it to do some cooking in the dutch oven.

There where many downed trees that had fallen into the lake, from the often steep eastern edge of mountain pond. Campsites are on the other side of the lake, and they all where in good shape.

This is the Mountain at Mountain Pond. It's not much more then a hill, because Jenkins Mountain has largely petered out before reaching here, but it's still a lot higher then surrounding elevation.

This was taken from the lake. It was great to be right on the lake, at this very remote Adirondack Pond.

Some previous camper left this box full of garbage -- bottles, beer cans, plastic, paper, etc. What's a boy to do? Burn it of course! I thought about picking out the beer cans first, so I could redeem them, but it grossed me out. So what I did, is stack some charred wood from previous campers, some of my own firewood, poured 1/4 gallon of gasoline on it, and tossed a match in. Once the garbage was incinerated, I carefully picked out the aluminum cans, bottles, and other unburnables, and tossed them in my bucket to bring home for recycling.

Boom! Actually, it didn't really explode that much, as the gasoline kind of soaked into the trash, although a ran like a little girl, after dropping a match into the fire.

Just paddling along Mountain Pond in the kayak.