Spring at Bob

 On Thursday, to celebrate Cinco do Mayo in fabulous spring weather, we headed to Bob Lake to check on this NFS campground and the Beaver Lodge Trail.

We found the road in rather snowy.

We lunched at the boat launch.
Sunny, calm, warm, no bugs. Perfect!

Then the tools came out for trail clearing.

We started out on the old RR grade.

Would have been a cool thing to have seen.

Moles over winter?

Didn't take long to find a big one across the trail.

Arly diced it up.

No problem.

A little snow still on the shady spots of the trail.

We thought there would be more down spruce than this.

Just a few cuts to open the trail back up.

Now on the loop section of the Beaver Lodge trail.
This was the very top of a dead hemlock. The rest of
the large broken off tree was hung up and leaning
over the trail, too hazardous to do anything with.
Hopefully it will fall on its own soon.

The ponds were alive with singing frogs and birds.

Dolly! I learned to hunt frogs here when I was a puppy.

The little board walk is hanging in there.

We all enjoyed the view from the bench.  Sand Hill cranes were heard.

All done!

Campers left their fishing poles plus lotsa garbage in
the fire pit and scattered all around. Guess they
figured their mother was coming out to pick up after them?