Hike #5992 – Beaver Lake – Nov 19, 2011
A beautiful day for November, sunny with a light breeze, and 23 Tramps, driving 11 miles of dirt road to get to the trailhead. The hike was easy, on a well maintained trail. The hike was approximately 2.3 miles to an isolated lake that had been the site of an estate built in 1904. No signs of the great camp could be found, even after a bushwhack along the lake shore. Blue skies at an old campsite provided our lunch stop. There were no mishaps, no moose sightings, and Lu Blanchard as our sweep. We gloried in a magnificent tree spotted during the return trip, which easily had a trunk diameter of 8 feet or more. We stopped at the Hard Times Café for refreshment after the hike.
