After hiking to the terminus of the East Branch Trail I went back to the Fox Lair campsite and stopped at the picnic table there for a second time. I really wished I had camped there but at this point I didn’t feel like moving camp.⛺ That site is really scenic but it can be rather cold and I was afraid it could be quite muddy especially when it starts to rain.

While I’ve camped there before I’ve never headed all the away along old Route 8 to where it connects up with the modern alignment🏯. Some interesting old stairs, foundation and obviously an old road bed of Route 8.

Campsite 3 is located back there and it looks like that bridge has been repaired going back there. That said, I was disappointed to see some asshole had dumped a bunch of tires and a couch back there😤. Don’t ruin the wilderness for the rest of us. I don’t care if you dump garbage on your own land or if you live out in the sticks, get a case of budweiser and invite your friends to a couch burning party🔥. But don’t dump your crap on public lands. Obviously the owner had a truck, he probably spent more on gasoline hauling it up here then to the dump. 🚯I like how remote that campsite is and how much sun there would be for solar but I bet it’s super hot in the summer. Plus while they’ve repaired the bridge going back there I’m still a little sketched out by the hundred year old girders holding up the cement plate.😮 I doubt it gets the inspections that public roads get.

All and all a good day so far. I’m going to make pizza 🍕 in a bit.