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Adirondack Wild Forests I Camped in 2011

This past year, I got up to nine different Adirondack Wild Forests as part of my explorations of the Adirondack Park. Did a lot of hiking, kayaking, and camping. The map below shows the Adirondack Park’s various units.

I camped in Aldrich Pond (1 night), Black River (4), Debar Mountain (3), Ferris Lake (5), Independence River (2), Moose River Plains (3), Taylor Pond (2), Vandwhacker Mountain (1), and Wilcox Lake (4). My preference for certain Wild Forests over others, is not just based on scenic beauty or activities to do, as much as closeness to Albany and compatability with weekend plans.

I saw quite a bit of Adirondack Park for sure.

Aldrich Pond (1 night)

Camped one night on Streeter Lake Road in Aldrich Pond Wild Forest near the hamlet of Oswagatchie. Paddled part of Little River and Streeter Lake.

Black River (4 nights)

Camped two nights at Wolf Lake Landing Road. Paddled around Woodhull Lake, hiked over to Remsen Falls.

Camped two nights at North Lake. Sat down by the lake, enjoyed the moonlight. Explored Atwell and part of South Lake.

Debar Mountain (3 nights)

I camped for two nights at Mountain Pond near Paul Smiths, NY, while visiting the Saint Regis Canoe Area.

Then coming back from North Country, I decided to spend a night at Jones Pond, which is between Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths.

Ferris Lake (5 nights)

I did two weekend trips up to Ferris Lake Wild Forest. The first was during Memorial Day Weekend, which was pretty wet and rainy for most of the weekend. The second was during the mid-summer on a super oppressive, hot and humid day out. While I explored Edick Roadside Camping, and also Good Luck Lake, both times I roadside camped on Piseco-Powley Road, three nights at PR 9, one night at PR 4, and one night at 11.

Independence River (2 nights)

Camped two nights at Independence River Wild Forest on Smith Road, at field Campsite 1. There are ten campsites on this road, including one with an outhouse. Several of them are located in old logging load pads, that are now mowed as fields for camping. Nothing particularly fancy here.

Moose River Plains (3 nights)

Planned to spend a week at Moose River Plains, brakes failed on third day up there. Still got three days of fall camping in along Cedar River – Limekiln Lake Road. Camped one night at Campsite 24, and two at Campsite 57 this year.

Taylor Pond (2 nights)

Camped up at Union Falls for two nights in the fall, while hiking and exploring several locations in Clinton County and eastern portion of the North Country.

Vandwhacker Mountain (1 nights)

Camped one night at Cheney Pond at the Vanderwhacker Wild Forest.

Wilcox Lake (4 nights)

Camped three nights up off of NY 8 — one at an old Gravel Pit along the East Sacandaga River in April when the snow was still there, two nights at Fox Lair Campsite, and one night at Hope Falls Road, which is off of NY 30, near Northville.

Camping Log

January – June 2011.

Roadside: 9, Tent: 1, Leanto: 0 nights …

Date	Campsite	Where	Type	Notes
06/19/11	Campsite On Forest Road 70 Near Lye Wilderness	Forest Road 70, Green Mountains NF, Kelley Stand, VT	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Hiked towards Big Alder, but couldn’t cross stream. Rainy day, did a little paddling in Powley Place. Nicer day on Memorial Day
06/04/11	Campsite On Back Side of Stockmans Island	Stockmans Island, Hudson River State Park, NY	Tent camping after paddling in on kayak	Put in at Coxscakie Boat Launch, camped on an island in Hudson River.
05/29/11	Powley Place (Campsite 9)	Piseco-Powley Road, Ferris Lake Wild Forest, Stratford, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Hiked towards Big Alder, but couldn’t cross stream. Rainy day, did a little paddling in Powley Place. Nicer day on Memorial Day.
05/28/11	Powley Place (Campsite 9)	Piseco-Powley Road, Ferris Lake Wild Forest, Stratford, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Rainy day. Hiked around Powley Place.
05/27/11	Powley Place (Campsite 9)	Piseco-Powley Road, Ferris Lake Wild Forest, Stratford, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Left work early, drove up there. Nice evening before the rain.
05/21/11	Cheney Pond	Cheney Pond, Vanderwhacker Wild Forest, Newcomb, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Explored Vanderwhacker Wild Forest. Kayaked around Cheney Pond couple of times, explored Tawandus Ruins.
05/20/11	Fox Lair Campsite	NY Route 8, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, Bakers Mills, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Much nicer this time, a little rain, things greened up. Got a little rain, very damp.
04/22/11	Fox Lair Campsite	NY Route 8, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, Bakers Mills, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Woke up to 3” of cold wet snow and rain, decided to go home and abandon trip.
04/21/11	Gravel Pit Campsite	NY Route 8, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, Griffin, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Cold morning, trees covered with ice. Hike up around part of 13th Lake near North Creek, NY
04/09/11	Moscow Hill Horse Camp	Brookfield State Forest aka Charles Baker State Forest, Brookfield, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	One other camper here, no equestrians this time of year. Wanted to camp on Cherry Ridge, however too much snow there.

March – December 2010.

Roadside: 28, Tent: 2, Leanto: 1 nights …

Date	Campsite	Where	Type	Notes
12/4/10	Old NY 8	Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, Griffin, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Very cold. Ice and snow on truck in morning. Kind of close to NY 8, but all the best campsites taken by hunters.
11/12/10	Lower Assembly Area	Sugar Hill State Forest, Watkins Glen, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Woke up surrounded by Horse Trailers and equestrians in morning. Assembly area was closed this time of year, but horse trails still widely used.
11/11/10	Informal campsite on Forest Road 151	Allegheny National Forest, Near Sayre, PA	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Second night at Allegheny National Forest. I liked the site I stayed in the previous day a lot, and the days where too short (sunset at 4:45 PM), so no time to waste searching for a site.
11/10/10	Informal campsite on Forest Road 151	Allegheny National Forest, Near Bradford, PA	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Many sites in Allegheny National Forest. This one I particularly liked, so I decided to stay there.
11/09/10	Aspah Run Camping Area	Aspah, near Wellsboro, PA	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): paid primitive area	Decided due to a lack of a time due to early sunset, would have done roadside/back country camping, but for $10, and being alone, it was fine.
11/08/10	Aspah Run Camping Area	Aspah, near Wellsboro, PA	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): paid primitive area	Camped here, because I didn’t want to camp back country, and didn’t know the area well enough.
11/07/10	Lower Assembly Area	Sugar Hill State Forest, Watkins Glen, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Originally wanted to camp at Birds Eye Lake or something like that, but the map I had got me lost, and I couldn’t find the road campsite up there.
11/06/10	Campsite 7	Stoney Pond State Forest, Madison, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Frost/ice on puddles in morning. Some snow in some places.
09/05/10	Campsite 56	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Rain showers, enjoyed staying in a very private and quite campsite up in the sandy plains.
09/04/10	Campsite 56	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Hiked to Mitchells Pond. More rain. It was kind of wet and cold.
09/03/10	Campsite 56	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Kind of wet and rainy, hung out in camp, did a little exploring of the plains. Also, paddled in Cedar River Flow for a while. Enjoyed the very private drive in site here.
09/02/10	Campsite 2	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	I left work at 5 PM…. but with traffic, and wanting to get a pizza to eat on the way up, didn’t get to Moose River Plains until after 9 PM. Very dark, very tired, just wanted a place to collapse.
08/28/10	An Designated Campsite	Big Pond, near Margretville, NY	Kayak in Primitive Campsite: no charge	Did a little hiking an exploring around Ashfield Pinnacle, then drove south to Big Pond. Lantern did not work, a very dark night.
08/27/10	Betty Brook Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Nice night after work…. drove around Mallet Pond State Forest, looking for campsites and interesting places to explore.
08/14/10	Mountain Pond Campsite 4	Mountain Pond, Paul Smiths, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Last day of NY 30 Kayak vacation. Mountain Pon was nice, very remote, just off of NY 30.
08/13/10	Floodwood Road Campsite 3	Floodwood Road, Fish Creek Ponds, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Crowded, stayed down by Poliwog Pond… wouldn’t go there again.
08/12/10	Horseshoe Lake Campsite 8 (about a ½ mile from lake)	NY 421, Horseshoe Lake, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Couldn’t get a site right on Horseshoe Lake. Discovered Lows Lake – amazing.
08/11/10	Wakely Pond Campsite 7	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Wanted to paddle Cedar River Flow and enjoy camping up near water …
08/10/10	Undesigned Campsite, west side of road	Mason Lake, Spectulator, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	First day of kayak vacation, as I drove up from work, decided to go somewheres not too far away …
07/31/10	Undesigned Campsite, west side of road	Mason Lake, Spectulator, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Hiked to Pillsbury Mountain Firetower, then camped down at Mason Lake.
07/18/10	Otter Brook Campsite (MRP Number 110)	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped by the Otter Brook Bridge, at a rather large campsite. Not my favorite campsite, and it poured out.
07/17/10	Wakely Pond Campsite 8	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped down by Cedar River Flow, in a drive in site, a short way from the Flow, but also pretty private.
07/16/10	Wakely Pond Campsite 8	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped down by Cedar River Flow, in a drive in site, a short way from the Flow, but also pretty private.
07/15/10	Wakely Pond Campsite 8	Moose River Plains, Inlet, Adirondacks, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped down by Cedar River Flow, in a drive in site, a short way from the Flow, but also pretty private.
06/27/10	Balsam Swamp Camping Area Site 3	Balsam Pond, East East Pharsalia, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Came back to here, after exploring Labrador Hollow.
06/26/10	Balsam Swamp Camping Area Site 3	Balsam Pond, East East Pharsalia, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Stop over between Burnt-Rossman and Labrador Hollow. Liked camping here in the past.
06/25/10	Duck Pond Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Summit, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped up a Duck Pond for a change, after driving out here after work.
06/05/10	Leonard Hill Informal Overlook and Campsite	Leonard Hill, Broome Center, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped up by the Firetower at an informal campsite, watched sun set, weather turned to rain by morning …
06/04/10	Betty Brook Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Camped at Betty Brook, very humid, drove down to Utsaythana Firetower.
05/15/10	Alder Pond Campsite 2	Alder Pond, Balsam Lake Wild Forest, Margretville, NY	Tent campsite…. short backpack in: no charge	Camped at one of the campsites around Alder Pond.
04/03/10	Betty Brook Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping, in a tent	Didn’t have the cap on my truck yet, but wanted to roadside camp.
03/21/10	Cotton Hill Lean To	Cotton Hill, Middleburgh	Short backpack into a leanto	There was about a foot of snow up by Cotton Hill Leanto on first day of spring, but due to abnormally warm weather, wasn’t all that cold until late into the night.

August – October 2009.

Roadside: 3, Tent: 0, Leanto: 0 (thru August 2009) …

Date	Campsite	Where	Type	Notes
10/11/09	Betty Brook Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	First really cold evening of the year, very much fall like. I didn’t bring my warm coat with me.
10/10/09	Betty Brook Campsite	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	Fairly cold night, but not as bad as one might have thought. On way out, stopped at Leonard Hill to take some pictures.
08/08/09	Betty Brook – informal campsite along road	Burnt-Rossman Hill State Forest, Schoharie, NY	Roadside camping (in pickup truck): no charge	After hiking Slide Mountain and Balsam Lake Firetower. Dead tired …

Camping at Horseshoe Lake, Aug 12

Horseshoe Lake is located on South Eastern Saint Lawrence County, on a dead end state highway, NY 421, a spur from NY 30 South of Tupper Lake. It offers 6 campsites scattered along the lake, with 6 others on nearby roads. It is also near the Bog River Flow Canoe/Kayak Area. Don’t expect to get a campsite on the lake in the afternoon, but the sites along the truck trail are rarely used.

Six Miles to Horseshoe Lake. This is the turn off for NY 421, one of the strangest state highways in the state. It is a dead ended highway, that leads to gravel roads around Horseshoe Lake and Bog River Flow. It is very twisty and narrow, and portions have not been resurfaced in over 50 years.

After The Pavement Runs Out. About a two miles from the paved end of NY 421, I camped. This is first thing in the morning, with the sun shining down from the wetlands near where I camped.

Campsite No 9. This is Campsite No 9 at Horseshoe Lake, on an Unnamed Adirondack Park Road, about two miles from the end of NY 421/Paved. I could not get site on the lake, arriving at 5 PM at night, but it’s still a nice campsite. This area of Saint Lawrence County is so remote, only 2 big pickup trucks, and logging truck passed by in the 12 or so hours I was there.

Not Fancy Campsite. By no means was Campsite No 9 on the Unnamed Road, particularly fancy. But it provided a place to camp, and was a three minute drive down to the lake. I could have gotten a spot on Horseshoe Lake most likely had I arrived in the morning, as it seemed like campsites tended to clear out in the morning.

Road Crosses Railroad Tracks. This is where the weird hair-pin turn appears on maps at the end of NY 421. I’m not sure why it follows this route, as the terrain is flat, but maybe at one time there was an inholding or private home located in here.

Horseshoe Lake in Morning. Heading swimming in a couple of minutes. The water was real nice.

Cowboy Hat, Swimming Trunks, Work Boots. Not that you could get the total picture from this image. But the cowboy hat and work boots came off before the dip. A real country boy thing.

Unnamed Dirt Road. This is the road that goes from Horseshoe Lake to Mount Arab / Piercefield.

Wetlands Along Horseshoe Lake. This is about a mile after the pavement runs out on NY 421, just after the Bog River Flow / Lower Lows Dam Road turn-off

Here is a map of where I camped, on the truck trail, west of Horseshoe Lake.

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A Rainy Day at Cedar River Flow, July 23

I had originally planned on exploring Moose River Plains, on Friday July 23 during my vacation. It however rained and rain, and I had to hide out under the tarp the whole time. So I spent most of the day camping out and reading.

Getting Breakfast Ready. Yes, I have lots of cheap trashy plastic crap that I use for camping. And I use styrofoam bowls and plastic silverware as much as possible, because clean up only involves using some matches and a fire.

Cearel in Plastic Box. I stored all of my food in these 10 plastic boxes that I got at Walmart for $10. It helped things from getting all smashed up, and made organization much easier.

It just poured and poured. It was a real rainy Friday. I ended up driving down to Indian Lake to buy some more ice and food, and to check the internet.

I spent a lot of time listening to radio in the rain and reading books.

After a while, all the rain started to make the tarp sinks due to the wet. Eventually, even the Christmas lights shorted out.

But by evening, things started to clear out at the Cedar River Flow. It was refreshing after Friday’s long day of rain.

That was Day 3 at Cedar River Plains. It was wet, but nice to take a quiet break for a while.

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The Sound of Rain on the Truck Cap

I normally am not a fan of rain when I am camping. I don’t like getting wet, and rain can put a damper in plans to go hiking. I worry about rain washing out the roads, or making the mud so deep and slippery the roads become impassable and I’m stuck on whatever truck trail I am currently on.

My truck cap leaks. By at least one of the windows, the fiber glass has shrunk around the window — probably from my use of Sterno to heat the cap — and allowed water to leak in whenever it rains. The wet isn’t bad, but it does make it damp.

The windows can’t be open when it rains — at least heavily — because of the slant to make the truck cap more aerodynamic. It gets humid under the cap, with no air flowing around to make up for the moist air I breathe out.

I worry about severe thunderstorms, as the I know laying in the steel truck bed, in a severe thunderstorm offers no protection from lightening, and the fiberglass would tear and shatter if a tree came down.

Yet, worst of all, it can be entrapping. There is relatively little room, especially with gear. I might have enough room to sleep in the truck cap, but it really isn’t big enough for doing any real living inside, with nowhere to stretch or move, without flipping down the tailgate.

Regardless, I kind of like the sound of rain on the truck cap. I can be loud, but it also is so soothing.

Burnt Rossman June 2010

My truck broke down on Memorial Day Weekend heading out to Burnt-Rossman State Forest, losing it’s brakes once again. After finally getting them fixed, I got out there for the first weekend of June 2010. I wanted to camp up top of Eminence hill, but due to logging in that area, I settled to camp down in my old favorite place, the small primitive campsite along Betty Brook.

At first, I couldn’t find any dry matches. But then after an hour stumbling around with the cigerette lighter in the truck, and a box a wet matches, I got some paper started, and off I went cooking dnner.

Not much has changed at this camp site from last year, or actually in early April when I last camped here. Things are a bit more green for sure though.

I was quite happy to see that my little white gas stove was well behaved, and not leaking. Last year, when I was cooking something, the gas valve leaked, and the stove’s gas valve and I think also tank caught on fire (!!) I moved the stove away from everything, and fortunately it did not explode.

At night, space is a little tight, so I have to stick all my crap up in the cap of my truck. It’s not a great situation having so little space, but I guess it works okay for now. In a thunderstorm, I can still get into the drivers side, despite having a lot of the camping crap packed in passenger side.

Despite the heavy rain in the morning, it was a nice night up there. From here, I went over to Luthernville State Forest and Clapper Hollow State Forest to explore some of those lands, in my truck.

Here is a map of Betty Brook, in case you don’t know where it is by now. Next time I camp up here, I will probably camp either at the lean-to or up by Doney Hollow Pond on Burnt Hill Road. I haven’t camped up there since Labor Day Weekend 2006.

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Hiking to Rossman Hill Lean-To

I’ve camped up at Burnt-Rossman State Forest a couple of dozen times. It’s one of my favorite places to go out truck camping, with it’s remote and quiet nature, and while I had known from maps that there was a lean-to up there, that one could hike to, I had never actually visited it. I had spent the previous night tent camping, and being up early, decided to check out the lean-to.

The lean-to is located on the section of the Long Path that crosses Morey Road, just south of Rossman Hill Road, right next to the old cemetary. Alternatively, you can access the lean-to from Burnt Hill Road, just up the hill from where Duck Pond Road splits off. The lean-to is located about a 1/2 mile from either road. Regardless of which way you choose to go, it’s a nice level hike through marshes and old timber stands.

And old woods roads…

As you past by the headwaters of the Cole Brook, which ultimately helps feed the Schoharie Creek.

And the lean-to is really nice looking and only used occassionally, mostly by the locals.

And it’s nearby a spring, or at least a marshy area that never gets wet.

It’s definately some place I would like to stay some day.

Here is a map:

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Adirondack Wild Forests I Camped in 2011

Aldrich Pond (1 night)

Black River (4 nights)

Debar Mountain (3 nights)

Ferris Lake (5 nights)

Independence River (2 nights)

Moose River Plains (3 nights)

Taylor Pond (2 nights)

Vandwhacker Mountain (1 nights)

Wilcox Lake (4 nights)

Camping Log

January – June 2011.

March – December 2010.

August – October 2009.

Camping at Horseshoe Lake, Aug 12

A Rainy Day at Cedar River Flow, July 23

The Sound of Rain on the Truck Cap

Burnt Rossman June 2010

Hiking to Rossman Hill Lean-To