Leaf Peeping

My brother and sister-in-law are visiting and we have been hoping to show them the fall colors.  The colors are beautiful - the first week of October is definitely peak - but the weather has been lousy with rain and clouds every day.  Today was supposed to be the best day, so we headed east towards the high peaks.  We had hoped to hike to the viewpoint at Cobble Ridge and to go up Whiteface to get the great views, but the clouds were so low we were driving in them by the time we got to Wilmington.  So we hiked down along the flume of the West Branch of the Ausable River.  With all the rain we have had recently, there was plenty of water.






And stopped along the road to get some views of the leaves.

Good Weather for Deer Flies

We walked the road this morning before the temperature got too high.  It is supposed to be 92 degrees with high humidity again today.  It doesn't seem to bother the deer flies.

HOT!!!

Granted, the thermometer has the sun on it.  But the actual temp is about 95 degrees with high humidity.  Good thing we have a basement to escape to.

At Camp

We drove to camp on Wednesday, May 16.  We have spent the time working around camp and did a short, windy paddle on the Flow.  So nothing worth blogging about.  Today we took the bikes to Fish Creek and did one circuit.  The weather has been great.  The black flies are out and are just starting to bite.