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#6556 – Rock River Trail, Rock Lake – September 4, 2016

#6556 – Rock River Trail, Rock Lake – September 4, 2016

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Write-up: Deb Roberts
Leader: Deb Roberts
Co-Leader: Meg Higgerson

TnT Rock Lake

Our hike in to Rock River was around 6 miles. There were hills, rocks and mud. And although the trail doesn’t have a lot of markers, it is still fairly easy to follow.
Eight seasoned tramps sashayed out to the river bank, where we sat on rocks along the side of the riverbed.
TnT Rock Lake
TnT Rock Lake

The water was pretty low! Bugs were scarce, though some of us in skirts, saw more than others…all that exposed tender flesh!
TnT Rock Lake
Meg made some awesome molasses cookies, which we gladly chomped on after our sandwiches. I’ll blame my fast hiking speed coming back out, on the sugar in the cookies!!

Once we finished this trail, we decided to go down the road to the Rock Lake trailhead and see what this lake was all about. It was a short .5 mile to the lake. It is larger than you would think with great views of Blue and Dun mountains. A great time was had by all.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the leader, yours truly, almost lost her boots when she missed a bypass trail and stepped into mud up to her ankles. The sucking sound reverberated off the mountain tops!!!! Eh, what’s a little mud!

#6554 – Clockmill Pond and Rock Lake – August 28, 2016

#6554 – Clockmill Pond and Rock Lake – August 28, 2016

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Write-Up: Richard Miller
Leader: Richard Miller
Co-leader: Louie Casatelli

The group left from Mapledale and drove Rts 365, 8, and 10 to Powley Road. We failed to find the trailhead on the first pass, but we were able to find it with the use of my GPS.

The weather was not quite so warm as it had been previously. I was worried that the day might be too hot for hiking. In addition to lower temperatures, there was a good breeze to keep body temperatures low.

We hiked from Powley Road to the junction of the two trails that were not marked. The first lake we visited was Clockmill Pd., which was less than a mile. Although trail markers have been posted, the trail was sometimes hard to follow. It was a good place to eat lunch as we could sit by the pond and absorb the breeze.

We then returned to the junction and headed for Rock Lake. This was a snowmobile trail and old road which was easy to follow. The trail passes by a small, unnamed body of water before reaching Rock Lake. There is no good direct access to the lake from the trail, so we bushwacked down to the vegetation-covered shore.

As we returned the day grew hotter and the hike was not so comfortable. The weather started to turn cloudy. We left without a mishap, however.

#6382 – Rock Lake – April 4, 2015

#6382 – Rock Lake – April 4, 2015

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Write-up: Nancy Coleman
Leader: Nancy Coleman
Co-Leader: Tom Schenck
 
It was a bleak drizzly Holy Saturday, so much colder than the 2 previous days where the temperature reached the 60’s.  We didn’t expect anyone to show up for the hike to the original start of the Northville-Lake Placid Trail  But we had 7 hearty Tramps.
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On the previous Saturday, the two or more feet of snow had a crusty top and one needed snowshoes and we even post holed with them.  One poor soul had started a thru hike just before us and was post holing frequently.  He has a long trek ahead of him.
Because of these conditions we told everyone it would be too dangerous to ski.  Big mistake.  The warm days had softened the crust.  The snow was soft and filled with water.  Every once in a while your snowshoe would slide off the side of the trail and your foot would go down, down, down into the deep snow.
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The West Branch of Stoney Creek follows the trail.  Last week it was frozen over and there was snow on top.  It had that look of a trench of marshmallows.  Today in some sections the water was flowing fast over the ice.  The ice had a milky green tone.  In other places the water was flowing with all the ice gone.
Amazing what a difference a week makes.  About 2 miles into the 4.9 mile hike we had to come to a quick halt.  In a feeder stream that we didn’t even see last week, the water was rushing over rocks.   It was deep and wide and fast and cold.  There were large rocks covered with ice that dispersed the water in many directions.  Try as we did, most of us couldn’t cross and we were afraid if we did, we wouldn’t be able to get back over it in a few hours.  Conditions could get even worse.  Tom Schenck crawled over a slippery log and told all of us not to do it.
We turned around and decided to hike Nine Corner Lake.  That is a .9 mile hike with elevation change.  It had been snowmobiled, so we wore microspikes.  That was a nice hike until we got to the lake.  The wind was fierce.  People were standing behind trees to protect themselves.  Paul Fortin wanted to go out onto the lake but he got no takers.  Between the wind and the thought of soft ice we all refused.  We took a quick picture and descended.
On the way home we stopped at Arthurs for some appetizers and adult beverages.