Vanderwhacker 📍

Ice piles up as the Boreas River splits briefly as it approaches Hewitt Eddy. 

I always like seeing these old Conservation Department markers. I am not sure how many of them are actually 55 years old at this point, and how many were "new" old stock, that had been sitting in a warehouse for years before they were installed. Painted aluminum might be fairly indestructible compared to the plastic markers of recent decades, but I can't imagine the original markers from late 1960s would still look this good after all those years. The DEC replaced the Conservation Department on April 1, 1970.

The black water of the Boreas River from the tannin definately looked a bright brown color in contrast to the willy white fresh snow all around it.