34, huh? Water'll be getting hard soon! And might I be the first to say that you sure do have a lot of firewood at your camp. Are you taking it home?
River water temp was 49 when I came in Tue. Betting its dropped a degree or two since Be nice to take the wood home, some awesome big , healthy,straight birch out here. Even I'd be stretching it hauling wood in a Jon boat, miles upstream then haul it 50 miles home Hmmmm, wonder how many boatloads in a cord How much wood weight will the boat trailer haul? Soon the water level is down so low we take a canoe in the last mile up a slough to camp, that'd add man-hours to it. Some logistics & cost analysis to work on
I hiked 57 Miles in Maine and New Hampshire a couple weeks back. Saw some sign, but never actually saw one myself. Good hunting!
PS I did haul the log splitter it to split this stuff. No way I could've split 2+ cords by hand, 1/2 of it is beetle kill spruce
Family , G-kids all coming out (tomorrow) to camp this long weekend Boat ride & last camp out of the year Enjoying the lone silence today That Should scare the moose away for a while & burn Up some firewood
Seeing fresh moose & brown bear signs out near the tree stand I put up Hope I only see the moose. G-kids want to go check out the tree stand, canoe ride & 3/4 mile hike Built it in a black spruce island thicket, more wood for bracing the trees than for the platform Location/location/location !!!
Dave, that 34 degrees sounds great to me. I was happy to see 50 but could take a few more degrees off. Still, we have to hope for a late freeze this year for the crops. It has been a weird growing season around here. Here, we were super dry then got 7 3/4" of rain in less than a month now dry forecast again. Looks like another big warm-up again next week. Sad, but it is still September and we normally get a mix of temps and sometimes wet, sometimes dry. Bucks should be rubbing most anytime now. Didn't get even one picture on trail cam last week. That generally happens as the antlers are hardening.
