Piseco Lake Weekend Forecast, Thursday Edition
Still looks quite nice, except for the thunderstorm threat. Warm, but not so incredibly warm that's its uncomfortable.
The Weekend
Good Morning! Happy Friday.
Good Morning! Happy Friday. At the end of the day, we can say the weekend has come back around. Looks like a nice weekend, and I might be able to get out of town if a choose, as I should be picking up a loaner car this afternoon. If I go camping, I will have to see if my white gas lantern works, as itβs been a long time since Iβve actually turned it on. In recent years, Iβve done things mostly electrically.
I am still hopeful about Independence Day Weekend and having my truck back. Itβs a possibility, although who knows. I might still go tent camping if I donβt have the truck.
Further out, I got to figure out where I am going, assuming I take a week off in mid to late July. I want to try to get at least week off to go somewhere. I kind of got busy, and never got around to plan things out for going down to West Virginia and Virginia. I also donβt know if I want to go down there in the hottest part of the summer β it could be downright hot. Maybe I should go there in the fall, during my November trip. But I also donβt want to spend too much time down there in the fall, as that will cut into time I have back in New York to go hunting.
I could envision this summer taking a trip through the Adirondacks in mid to late July. Maybe start out at Moose River Plains, then Independence River, then out to Lowville, then maybe the Western Adirondacks lake Greenwood State Forest and Streeter Lake. Maybe then end up in Deer River area and Walter Pratt/Brasher Falls State Forest in Massena. Then come back through Plattsburgh.
Sometime in July or August I want to get back down to the Western Catskills again, maybe camping on Mary Smith Hill. Try my hand at fishing the Beaverkill and poking around Roscoe and visit Cables Lake. Then maybe head down into Poconos of Pennsylvania for a day.
Who Let Her Behind the Wheel?
Appropiate video for 2:35 PM on a Friday afternoon. Watch is now!
The Friday Before Memorial Day Aside …
Good Afternoon! Happy Friday. Looks like a kind of gray, rainy start to the Memorial Day Weekend. Based on my experience last year at Moose Plains, I decided not to head out of town at least until the second half the long weekend. I don’t like camping in the rain, and the black flies tend to be pretty bad this time of year.
Probably will head somewheres in Central NY later in the weekend, and do some fishing, hiking and camping. Exact plans have yet to be worked out but it should be a good adventure, even if the first half the weekend is kind of wet, gray and rainy. Maybe the traffic will be less bad than usual, with the weather.
Going to hold off on going to Moose River Plains for a couple of weeks, although I guess if I get a nice weekend, I might go up to Piseco-Powley Road first, assuming it’s open by early summer.
Have a great weekend, and stay dry!
Memorial Day Weekend at First Glance
While it looks like we have a good chance of showers and clouds for the start of the the weekend forecast for Inlet, NY, it looks like Sunday and Monday will be quite delightful.
At any rate, the weekend forecast is something to watch to see what happens...
Heading Out to Schoharie County
Heading out to Schoharie County. Going to do some fishing, some hiking, some photos, and some camping. Looks a nice weekend, now that we are done with the rain. Going to check out Mine Kill Falls tommorow morning, which should be spectular after all the rain.
The Weekend That Was
The weekdays come back around once again. One weekend left until Memorial Day Weekend. Next weekend, thinking of heading out to Schoharie County to do some fishing and camping, but that plan could evolve depending on the weather.
This past week on Saturday, I volunteered for several hours at Albanyβs Tulipfest for Save the Pine Bush. It was a hot and sticky Saturday. Then hopped in the Climate Controlled pickup, then headed north. The leaves are certainly coming out in Albany, but not so much as you head north in the Adirondacks. Another week they should be out pretty good though.
I had read that West River Road was open. Apparently itβs not, past the start of the Forest Preserve. The town portion of the road is open, so if you want to go fishing, thatβs good. But if your planning on camping at Whitehouse, like I was, your going to have to wait a few more weeks, assuming that the wilderness advocate types donβt beat you to the punch and get the road permanently barricaded.
Ended up camping on NY 8. Not at Fox Lair, but actually a Β½ mile down the road at the campsite I camped at in December. I actually was originally planning to camp at this site, if I got the .22 rimfire that I almost bought last week, until I found out how difficult getting ammunition would locally. Behind this campsite, there is a fairly clear woods, and maybe a ΒΌ mile back there is a large hill that would make for safe backstop for shooting. It was fine, because it was relatively late that I got back to the campsite
Maybe I will just get a pellet gun to start out with. Iβve heard a good air rifle can be used for 90% or more of the uses a 22 ca n be used for, especially at short range for things like squirrels and rabbits.
But I think a 22 rifle would be far more useful and accurate, especially if I get more into trapping. I liked the review of the Remington 597, but then read the downsides like the plastic stock flexing and jamming issues and are now looking more at the classic Ruger 10/22.
Some of the pellet guns or air rifles are pretty good now, and ammunition is not too difficult to get. That said, I think the whole 22 LR ammunition shortage canβt last for too much longer. People can hoard only so much ammo and the βfearedβ Obama is becoming a lame duck. I guess I could go shooting in Schoharie County this weekend if I wanted to.
Fox Lair, if the site is available in November, might be real good for trapping muskrat. There are some good muddy banks up along the East Branch up there, and while I havenβt really gone looking for muskrat dens, they must be there. The water depth there was more then adequate for drowning sets.
The wood was pretty wet from all the recent rain. Plus itβs kind of swampy back by the campsite. Which made it open for shooting, but it made the firewood I collected burn For the first hour or two, the campfire did a lot of smoldering and smoking as the wood dried out, but at least it was warm out. Kind of stunk too β because I got the fire started with a bag of Styrofoam plates and other burnable trash I brought up there β and there wasnβt a big hot fire to quickly burn it up like normally.
In my effort to be green, I did pick up a fair bit of litter in the woods and either burnt it took it home. I found an pickup truck tire and an ATV tire dumped back there. I know tires arenβt free to get rid of at the dump, but people shouldnβt dump them on state land. I donβt litter, but removing tires or large hunks of unburnable junk from state land is a bit more then Iβm willing to do. I filed a report with a Conservation Officer, so hopefully it will get cleaned up soon.
Hiked back to Kirby Pond. It was a lot farther back then I had originally expected, although the trail was easy to follow, as somebody had recently flagged it. I didnβt bring any fishing gear with me β forgot it in my truck β but I was talking to somebody who was fishing out there, and said the lake was pretty sterile.
Did drop a line into the Sacanadaga River south of the dam in Wells, which is always packed with fisherman. Left empty handed. But probably should have spent more time there. If West River Road had been open, I would have camped there, then fished in the West Branch, and probably had better luck.
So that was the weekend was.
Everything from the Save the Pine Bush Tulip Booth, to my continuing frustration over getting a 22 with ammo shortage, to finding out West River Road is still closed, to some time fishing, to some camping near Fox Lair, to smoky fires and nice nights, to visiting Kirby Pond.