I have to say I did quite a bit of camping this past summer, getting out 26 nights and a total of 35 days at camp. It was pretty rainy and cool for most of the summer, so I really didn’t get as much time swimming or enjoying hot summer days as I would have liked. I only really got up to the Potholers once, although I was at Piseco-Powley Road twice this summer, the second time it was too cold for swimming. Maybe it will warm up this September, and it will be nice enough to swim in the potholers one more time. I don’t know. It did get swimming a fair bit in the Finger Lakes, but many days just seemed cold and cloudy – there weren’t a lot of beautiful days out there in the woods.

I also wish I had gotten up to the Northern Adirondacks this summer. Maybe not to always crowded Floodwood Road or the St. Regis Canoe Area, but I would have liked to see some of those lakes, and maybe gone up to the Deer River area. Maybe later in the fall. I also wish I had spent more time at Moose River Plains, but I decided against it for the last holiday weekend due to the weather. Maybe late September when the leaves turn.

I didn’t spend as much time paddling, fishing or shooting. I mean should do more now, that hunting season for some small game are open. I could do that up at Moose River Plains when I go up there in a few weeks to see the fall colors. Those nice summer days are gone, and even if we do have breaks of warm weather, we will never have those late sunsets, which are now getting closer to 7 PM each day as we head to the first day of calendar autumn.

It does seem like the summer went by much too quickly. That’s all I’m going to really say.