Fall at Lake Ste Kathryn!

With reasonable weather predicted for camping and doing trail work, on late Friday afternoon we loaded the camper and headed south to Lake Ste Kathryn. Everyone likes being in the woods for fall adventures!   This post will be Friday and Saturday.

The camper being loaded.  Arly even hooked up the heater.

The dog truck was loaded as well.  Not filled yet!

The only photo taken before it was dark.  We got there at dusk.

Huuuummm coffee, the next morning.

What a gorgeous fall day to be at Lake Ste Kathryn!

I smelled bacon fat! Ya it makes kibble taste great.

Then we went for a quick hike to check the trail out.

Of course we take a dip in deer marsh as soon as possible.

It sure is fall and more than 50% of the leaves are down.

Tamaracks are yellow-green and will soon be bare.
Next spring they will get new needles.

We've never been here in the fall before.

It's only 3 miles around and puppies can run all the way around it.

An old but very large wasp nest was spied since the leaves are down.

Puppies lead the way.

Another dip was in order, at the headwaters of the East Branch.

A blanket of yellow we walk on.

Now we need to have lunch and grab a few tools.

There were just a few campers here, so we went over to see
if they were trail mutt friendly.

Oh ya, they are!

Back out to clear the down trees found, we spied this on the road.
It's from a BIG dog!  (125 lb or larger wolf)

OK, let's get these trees off the trail.

We cleared just a few trees off today and took care of
some problem areas.

This is down wash mess from a beaver pound.

This is dam debris that tries to come through the culvert.

An hour later, all better.

At 3:30 we were done so we head back to the dog truck
under a light drizzle.

Trail mutts do love being at Lake Ste Kathryn.

Let's relax around the camp fire. It drizzled less than 2 hours.

The canopy was needed for the drizzle and a wind break.

Ya, it's fall.

The sun goes down over the lake.  Where did the life guard go?

We stopped to see the friendly campers again.

Oh ya, we don't get no petting at our site!

The steps to the lake.