A few random pics. Not all were highlights as we got a couple serious downpours, and at least 1 bolt of lightning that just about knocked us out of our seats. We had to dismantle and dry out the tents 3 times, but overall a pretty great week.
The first day is always just a scramble to get there. Leave the house at 4:00am, get o Errol, NH 9:00am, pitstop at LLCotes for last minute items & fishing licenses, to the lake by 10 to unload and check-in - and since we are lazy, transport to the site at 11:00am. A few hours to setup, putter around the site, simple dinner, get a fire going and listen to the loons. Weather cooperated nicely. (Narrator, ‘…that would soon change…’)
Welp, here we go again. Up to lake Umbagog, to remote site 23 (map). On the ‘mainland’ rather than island site 14 where we often go. 23 is probably the biggest camping site on the lake and you might be able to sprinkle 10 tents there with room to spare.
Currently the house is disaster, with piles of dehydrated food filling the livingroom floor, packs and equipment strewn about, the pump on the worlds greatest backpacking stove, the MSR DragonFly, sprung a leak during testing that cant be fixed so we overnighted a replacement pump and a backup stove since I went into a bit of a panic. Its surprising to think that some of this gear is anywhere from 10 to 30 years old. Reviewing menus, the canoe, tents, water filters, bear bags, ropes, fishing gear, cookware, sleeping bags & therm-a-rest mattresses, tarps, lighting and all the little fiddly other bits. Oh yeah, playing cards, toilet paper and bug spray.
We were last on this site 11 years ago in 2011. I think we spent 4 days in a cabin and then decided it was time to try a ‘wilderness site’ for a couple days with the girls. Its also the year we got our last camera, the Canon 60D. Looking, I see we have taken 10,619 images with it over 11 years - though admittedly hardly any recently. We will try and get a few.
Its been a few years since we were up at lake Umbagog, (location, website)… here are a few pics. The typical excuse for not paddling ourselves out to one of the sites (this year site R14 - lake map), is that we have to haul in firewood for a week - so I’m going to go with that. Also this year, transport from the ‘base camp’ was unavailable, so we found a rent-a-guy with a pontoon boat to haul us out.
We lucked out and had 7 days of perfect weather. We did get a little rain one night while we were sleeping.
The pictures look the same as every other year - kinda boring and repetitive when you get right down to it, but we love it.
just a couple pics
Pictures part 3.
