Spring Visit to the Hunt Camp
Yesterday Matthew and I went to visit the hunt camp with our good friend Rick. The original plan was to take Rick's canoe, but as the weather was poor (rain showers) we decided to take the camp boat instead.
We arrived at the landing on the other side of the Madawaska river by about 10:30am. As this is the shady side of the river, there was still lots of ice as you can see in the pictures below.
The camp was in great shape with no leaks and it looks like the camp had no visitors (human or otherwise) over the winter.
We were quite surprised to see some very fresh moose tracks along the creek right in front of the camp! The first picture below is showing how big the tracks are (that is Matthew's Size 7 boot for scale) and the second shows how widely spaced they were. Wow, nice sized moose!
After a short rest at camp we hiked along the "Main" trail up to the "Y" trail and stopped at "The Balsam" for a break before meeting Rick at the "W" for lunch. We were pleased to see many deer tracks (and what looked like a wolf track) along the trail. We also heard several Ruffed Grouse along the trail which we took as a good omen for this fall's hunt.
In general the trails we walked were in excellent shape with only a few small trees blown down across them. We did however, as you can see in the picture below, see lot of pine cones and pine branches across the trail. There must have been quite the windstorm to bring these down!
As the spring run off is still in high gear the creek was running very well. Along the trail close to camp there was is a spring which was full of water as can be seen below. The last two times I visited the came in April this spring was active, but not was never this deep! I expect this water would be very clean and fine for drinking. To bad this spring is not active in later summer/fall!
It should also be noted that we saw quite a bit of deer "dirt" along the trail around the "W" and also on the north trail down to camp. Considering this is a deer hunting camp, we were quite pleased to see some deer sign! ;-)
After lunch we headed back out to the boat and crossed the river. We were home by mid-afternoon.
Given that the weather was gloomy, this was still a great visit to the camp. Deer season is only 7 months away!
If you would like to see additional picture CLICK HERE to be taken to my Flickr page.
cheers!
Tom
We arrived at the landing on the other side of the Madawaska river by about 10:30am. As this is the shady side of the river, there was still lots of ice as you can see in the pictures below.
The camp was in great shape with no leaks and it looks like the camp had no visitors (human or otherwise) over the winter.
We were quite surprised to see some very fresh moose tracks along the creek right in front of the camp! The first picture below is showing how big the tracks are (that is Matthew's Size 7 boot for scale) and the second shows how widely spaced they were. Wow, nice sized moose!
After a short rest at camp we hiked along the "Main" trail up to the "Y" trail and stopped at "The Balsam" for a break before meeting Rick at the "W" for lunch. We were pleased to see many deer tracks (and what looked like a wolf track) along the trail. We also heard several Ruffed Grouse along the trail which we took as a good omen for this fall's hunt.
In general the trails we walked were in excellent shape with only a few small trees blown down across them. We did however, as you can see in the picture below, see lot of pine cones and pine branches across the trail. There must have been quite the windstorm to bring these down!
As the spring run off is still in high gear the creek was running very well. Along the trail close to camp there was is a spring which was full of water as can be seen below. The last two times I visited the came in April this spring was active, but not was never this deep! I expect this water would be very clean and fine for drinking. To bad this spring is not active in later summer/fall!
It should also be noted that we saw quite a bit of deer "dirt" along the trail around the "W" and also on the north trail down to camp. Considering this is a deer hunting camp, we were quite pleased to see some deer sign! ;-)
After lunch we headed back out to the boat and crossed the river. We were home by mid-afternoon.
Given that the weather was gloomy, this was still a great visit to the camp. Deer season is only 7 months away!
If you would like to see additional picture CLICK HERE to be taken to my Flickr page.
cheers!
Tom
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