Paddling Forked Lake

We drove back north from NJ yesterday. Today, we had a great paddle on Forked Lake.  The weather was fantastic and there weren't many bugs.

We put in at the campground and paddled along the south shore and down the Raquette River until we encountered too many rocks to proceed.  Then we came back out of the river and headed west to the end of the carry from Raquette Lake where we ate lunch on the dock.  Then some of us continued west to the end of the lake and headed up the Brandreth Lake outlet.

We weren't able to go very far, not due to beavers - the water was still quite deep - but because some folks stayed at the dock and since this was an ADK paddle, we felt we needed to go back to join them.  But I'd love to go back and see how far up the outlet one can paddle.  By the time we returned to our cars we had paddled a total of 14 miles!!