Back in the spring (of 2007) I asked for advice on Little Tupper Lake, where my girlfriend (we've now been married 12 years!) and I were thinking of camping for a few days (http://www.adkforum.com/showthread.php?t=5822). People here were very helpful and we decided we'd definitely go. We were mindful of the possibility of big waves, but it was calm when we arrived and we kept fingers crossed that it would be OK when we left.
We did go up to Rock Pond, but we left the boat at the culvert and walked in. That was a mistake, as the trail was lengthy and buggy and the carry wouldn't have taken long, and so all we saw of it was one place on the shore. We'll do better next time! We met the ranger at Rock Pond. He seemed like a nice guy.
Here are lots of pictures. You don't have to look at all of them if you don't want to.
Here we are loading the car in the suburbs of Boston, though some of this stuff is for a music festival we went to afterward.
And here we are all set to go and the bow paddler is saying "Are we doing this trip or aren't we?" It was about 6pm, plenty of daylight left but with a campsite to find and dinner to cook, no time to hang about.
Arrival! It seems as if a lot of people head off down the lake and take the first site that's open. We pretty much did the same, given that evening was on its way. Sites 1-3 were occupied, 4 and 5 were on a bay rather than headlands and we decided to pass, 6 was occupied and so 7 was our place. That distant headland on the left is essentially the put-in, just under 2 miles as the GPS flies.
Site 7 is where several buildings used to stand, maybe someone's family vacation compound. All that's left is chimneys and foundations.
It's also a spot where several large pine trees have come down, perhaps in the Big Blow of '95. These have been cut up into sections which make handy extra furniture. Kathy says "No fair taking my picture before I've had my first cup of coffee!" And no, we don't camp in backpacker mode when we have the boat. Why should we? Let the kayakers worry about what they're carrying.
We've all seen views like this:
And this:
Someone who'd been at Site 9 left a little floral decoration:
One day it rained, and we decided to go off to the new "WILD Center" (new in 2007--it opened the previous year) museum of local wildlife in the town of Tupper Lake. They offer a "rainy day" discount if you have the coupon that's printed on the official map!
We left our humble craft in the bushes back at the put-in, which was too bad because we found that in the Adirondacks you're nobody if you haven't got a boat to show. Best if you've got one of those woodstrip beauties:
The WILD Center has a good display of the unique strains of lake trout that live in several lakes (Little Tupper, for instance):
A better look at the fish:
And there's an expert on owls:
Plus a guy who's there to show you how a veteran of many trips into the woods should look:
Then it was back to camp while the daylight lasted, and the weather turned much better (but of course the wind was against us on the lake):
Finally our time was up and it was time to head back to the put-in (against the wind again, but you knew that) and haul gear. The official limit is 3 nights on one site and we stayed 4, but we got away with it:
Was all this stuff in the car before?
We did go up to Rock Pond, but we left the boat at the culvert and walked in. That was a mistake, as the trail was lengthy and buggy and the carry wouldn't have taken long, and so all we saw of it was one place on the shore. We'll do better next time! We met the ranger at Rock Pond. He seemed like a nice guy.
Here are lots of pictures. You don't have to look at all of them if you don't want to.
Here we are loading the car in the suburbs of Boston, though some of this stuff is for a music festival we went to afterward.
And here we are all set to go and the bow paddler is saying "Are we doing this trip or aren't we?" It was about 6pm, plenty of daylight left but with a campsite to find and dinner to cook, no time to hang about.
Arrival! It seems as if a lot of people head off down the lake and take the first site that's open. We pretty much did the same, given that evening was on its way. Sites 1-3 were occupied, 4 and 5 were on a bay rather than headlands and we decided to pass, 6 was occupied and so 7 was our place. That distant headland on the left is essentially the put-in, just under 2 miles as the GPS flies.
Site 7 is where several buildings used to stand, maybe someone's family vacation compound. All that's left is chimneys and foundations.
It's also a spot where several large pine trees have come down, perhaps in the Big Blow of '95. These have been cut up into sections which make handy extra furniture. Kathy says "No fair taking my picture before I've had my first cup of coffee!" And no, we don't camp in backpacker mode when we have the boat. Why should we? Let the kayakers worry about what they're carrying.
We've all seen views like this:
And this:
Someone who'd been at Site 9 left a little floral decoration:
One day it rained, and we decided to go off to the new "WILD Center" (new in 2007--it opened the previous year) museum of local wildlife in the town of Tupper Lake. They offer a "rainy day" discount if you have the coupon that's printed on the official map!
We left our humble craft in the bushes back at the put-in, which was too bad because we found that in the Adirondacks you're nobody if you haven't got a boat to show. Best if you've got one of those woodstrip beauties:
The WILD Center has a good display of the unique strains of lake trout that live in several lakes (Little Tupper, for instance):
A better look at the fish:
And there's an expert on owls:
Plus a guy who's there to show you how a veteran of many trips into the woods should look:
Then it was back to camp while the daylight lasted, and the weather turned much better (but of course the wind was against us on the lake):
Finally our time was up and it was time to head back to the put-in (against the wind again, but you knew that) and haul gear. The official limit is 3 nights on one site and we stayed 4, but we got away with it:
Was all this stuff in the car before?
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