Do you know exactly where this swimhole is?

[twochordcool]

It's somewhere on the Bouquet River...along 73 in St. Huberts?

They call it "Shoe Box" at this website for swimholes.

I'm DYING to find it's PRECISE location!

Can you help please?



BTW, you'll have to press the "next" button a few times to get to the swimhole I'm referring to - I can't seem to get an exact url.

http://www.running-water.com/holes/highpeaks/rockcut.htm

[Dick]

Twochordcool,

Another site has these instructions: "The swimming spot sometimes called Shoe Box Falls is about a half-hour's walk over an unmarked trail up the north fork of the Bouquet River. The hike starts where the river crosses Route 73 in Keene, a little more than a mile northwest of the junction of Route 73 and Route 9. The hike, sometimes muddy, requires some rock-hopping and climbing. It is along the left bank of the stream, heading southwest as you face it from the road." Hope this helps.

Dick

[twochordcool]

Thank you sir!

[qam1]

Yes I do, 1st time I've heard it called the Shoebox though

It's right off the path to East Dix on Rte. 73 about 2-3 Minutes after you cross the stream coming from Round Pond.

I would say it's here

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18...65&datum=nad83



At the crossing where you cross the North Fork Bouquet the path pulls away from the river, after you cross the the steam coming from Round Pond the path heads back to the NFB and in about 2-3 minutes it paraells it along a series of flumes. You will hear the river but not see it as you are above it on a shelf, but that's where the Shoebox is. There are several steep herdpaths leading down to the flumes and it. If you reach the part where there's a swampy area on the river you have gone to far!

The flumes are nice and the area is interesting as much of the river actually disappears underground only to reappear at the falls on the Shoebox.

The Shoebox is a nice but creepy pool (you will know what I mean by that when you see it) that's 100 feet wide but only about 15-25 feet across and I would say 25-30 feet deep (they say on the site it's 12' deep but it's more than that, it's definitely more deep than across).

One bad thing though, once I did jump in and came out with a big ole leech on my leg, the leeches seem to show up late in the afternoon.
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[twochordcool]

They have leeches in the rivers?

[lumberzac]

I know that spot very well. I've been going up there since I was about 6 years old. My father called the falls the “Washing Machine,” because the falls sounds like a top-load washing machine as it fills up with water. The spot pains me to go to now because it has now become, “discovered.” When I was young we would maybe run into a handful of people (often time no one) all day. The last few times I’ve going in, there have been 50+ people and there garbage hanging around on the rocks.

[qam1]

They have leeches in the rivers?

Surprisingly yes, but thankfully they are rare in rivers.

I've swam in probably about a hundred different spots on rivers and only twice I've gotten leeches.

Once was at the Shoebox, late in the afternoon. At the time I wasn't even aware there were leeches anywhere in the Adirondacks. When I was there I actually saw a bunch of them hanging out on that rock that slopes off into the water (What the guy dived off of in the pic), they were frog colored & patterned and I ignorantly thought they were just really ugly tadpoles and jumped in. It wasn't until I got out and one was on my leg sucking my blood that I finally realized what they were.

Previously I swam there dozens of times and never gotten a leech (that I know of), but sometime later late in the afternoon one day I saw another one hanging out on that rock. Like I said they seem to come out late in the afternoon, I've gone in the morning and early afternoon and jump in and never seen or got any. The water in the Shoebox is surprising a little stagnate, it's very deep and the waterfall is rather small so there's not alot of water going in and out of it (the Bouquet spits with most of the water going down a water slide on the other side.)

Other places on the Bouquet that I swam such as Split Rock Falls, Little Falls, The Black Hole (The swimming hole at the beginning of the path to East Dix), the swimming hole near the North Fork Waterfall I have never seen or gotten a leech.


Oh and the other time I gotten leeches was after I did the slide on Kilburn, I went in the Ausable right at the parking lot by Monument Falls to wash off my legs and I came out with dozens of small leeches all over both legs.

[twochordcool]

Yeah, that would FREAK me out!

I was swimming at Kidney Pond in Baxter State Park while canoeing and I saw bunches of them - made it a point to jump in - keep moving - and get out!

Nasty little things!

Can you get diseases or are they rather harmless?

What's the proper method for removing them if you get one on you?

[Kevin]

Can you get diseases or are they rather harmless?

What's the proper method for removing them if you get one on you?

I've never heard of leeches trasmitting diseases.

http://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/leeches.html

I always thought fire was the best tool for removing them, but this site makes a good point about what the leech does when being burned (won't post that here in case someone's eating...).

[twochordcool]

Well, let's hope the Adirondack leeches are a bit more civilized than Madagascar leeches.

[AdRegion]

Well, let's hope the Adirondack leeches are a bit more civilized than Madagascar leeches.

If I was a leech from Madagascar, I might be offended by that statement!