The day was awesome; from sunshine to big snowflakes reminiscent of the winters of years past.  29 Tramps hiked, a few snow shoed, a few skied, the  figure 8 trail from Bisby Road to the lock and dam on the  Moose River.

John Gilbert offered up history of this site, where the steamboat came up the river to a stop at the dam.  We stopped for lunch under pines beside the river.  There was a long slow slope up and over Humphrey Hill to converge on the Nicks/Nelson Lake trail to head back to our parked vehicles. There were no mishaps and many met at Van Aikins in Thendara for a beer.  One tramp stated this was a good hike and she would bring ADKs here.