NCT hike!

On Sunday afternoon we headed south to the North Country Trail at Gardner Rd. to check on the trail's conditions and do a little hike!

Since we no longer take care of this section, we took
our sign down today.

Then we headed west to see things.

Oh dear, some weed whacking sure would be nice here.
This is the Tank Creek meadow.

Trail mutts are giddy to be back here again.

We did finds many trees had fallen across the trail.

Oh well.

At the 2-track before the big descent to the river,
we headed north to see what was there. 
All the years we'd taken care of this section, we'd never done that.

The 2-track was recently mowed, as were several drive ways.

Yet another camp, with no apparent visitors for several years.

Back on the trail we head back. Spring Creek is way up again.
We had asked to have a bridge put in here. Oh well. It is deep!
We were glad for our extendable poles.

Then we bumped into a hiker!

Mike is from Iron Mountain.  We chatted with him for a bit.

It's getting late, so we headed east again.

We finally get back after our 10+ mile hike.
We used to camp here while working on the trail.
Like old times, we got a fire going to cook polish
sausages and have a nice dinner.

What a wonderful little hike we had today.