Adirondack Sports May 2024
16 Adirondack Sports Willard Hanmer Guideboat and Canoe Race “The Hanmer” is the longest running family fun canoe race in the Adirondack Park! In scenic Saranac Lake, the Green Side of the Big Apple • July 7, 2024 Beginning in 1962, The Hanmer is a three and a half mile paddle on Lake Flower, with a short carry, and a continuation down the Saranac River to the finish line at the Fish and Game Club where there is a community picnic with family friendly events, vendors and live music. Perfect for beginners and veterans alike! For more information please contact greensideofthebigapple@gmail.com or contact Kathy at (505) 235-1268. PADDLING CANOES - KAYAKS - SUPS Rentals • Outfitting Tripping • Shuttle Guide Service FLY & SPIN FISHING OUTFITTERS Guiding • Sales • Service Bass Tracker Boats Lessons • Tours Half Block to Mirror Lake! 2733 Main St, Lake Placid 518-523-3764 HighPeaksCyclery.com
By Rich Macha The area of the Adirondack Park to the north and west of the Village of Saranac Lake offers a great assortment of paddling opportunities. Some of the more popular destinations include Fish Creek and the ponds that surround it. A loop can be made that incorporates Fish Creek with five ponds entailing less than a half-mile of relatively easy, by Adirondack standards, carries. Adventurous paddlers can add a side trip to another pond along the way. In September of 2023, at the tail end of summer, I joined two friends, Bob Brand and Dave Pisaneschi, and set out to paddle the loop clockwise and to add a more remote pond on the route if we were making good time. We started on Floodwood Pond – from NY Route 30, the put-in is a 4.1-mile drive west on Floodwood Road, a good dirt road. Work was being done on the Adirondack Rail Trail and there was a lot of equipment just past the put-in near the usual parking area across the road. The work should be continuing through fall 2024. A few camps are located on the west shore of Floodwood Pond but most of the pond consists of undeveloped state land. After a short carry down to the water, we paddled southeast and to the left of a large island with designated campsites among tall red pines and hemlocks, then proceeded toward Fish Creek, the pond’s outlet. Aided by a light current, we soon passed under a bridge. You might find a need to maneuver around some rocks and tree debris in the relatively shallow water. After traveling 0.7 miles of wooded shoreline the creek passes through the east end of Little Square Pond. A few backcountry campsites are located here. There used to be an obvious osprey nest on a branch overhanging the pond but, unfortunately, there is no longer any sign of it. PADDLING Fish Creek/Rollins Pond Loop and More ▲ NAVIGATING THE ROCKS OF ROCK POND. Wolf Pond Wind fall Brook Below Little Square Pond, Fish Creek widens and the current slackens. Some boggy shores line the west side and lily pads grow in the shallower areas. About a half-mile below Little Square, a short channel on the right leads into Copperas Pond. A couple of black ducks were resting here and a loon was out patrolling the pond as we passed through – loons can be seen and/or heard on most of the Heavens Pond ponds in the area. A short paddle leads to a carry trail at the pond’s southwest end – white signs at water’s edge mark the locations of carry trails and yellow trail markers are found along the trails. After exiting the pond, a trail to the left leads to Black Pond, but for the loop trip you must make sure to take a right on the 0.3-mile carry trail to Whey Pond. The trail is a little rough but can be wheeled if you have a cart. Just before reaching Whey Pond, the trail forks – the left fork is the continuation of the carry and soon leads to a small beach at the pond – the right, and misleadingly more obvious, fork can tempt you to stray off-course and take the long way back to Little Square. It’s less than a mile to the other end of Whey Pond and the start of the easy 0.1-mile carry to the boat launch on Rollins Pond within the Rollins Ponds Campground – the state campground usually closes for camping shortly after Labor Day so was not open during our trip. We decided to stop for lunch here and it was then that I realized that my water bottle was missing and was likely back at the other end of Whey Pond. Luckily, two other kayakers soon followed us and one Portion of Saranac Lakes Wild Forest !J!( Windfall Pond Floodwood Mtn Trl ! Floodwood Mtn Dry Channel Pond !j ! ! ! ! !8 !j (2) West Pine Pond Floodwood Reservation Rd !G!( !J Deer Pond *Some restrictions may apply !8 ! W e st Pine Pond Trl ▲ FISH CREEK SOON AFTER LEAVING FLOODWOOD POND. ! Ledge Pond !( !J !j ! ! !8 (2) Rollins Pond !8 East Pine Pd Rock Pond Rock Pond ! !( !J !j !Q Adirondack Rail Trail !J!( !G!. !8 !9 !Q !8 !8 Trl ROLLINS POND CAMPGROUND !8 Otter Hollow !8 !8 !8 Lead Pond Whey Pond !G!( !J Deer Pond Long Pond !( !j ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! Floodwood Pond !8 Little Square Pd ! ! ! !8 !j !! !8 MAY 2024 17 !J !G !J Pond Trl ! Little S qu are ! !8 !J !G!. !( SA I N T R E G I S C A N O E A R E A Slang Pond Middle Pond !8 !8 !8 !9 !( Horseshoe Pond Trl See PADDLING 19 ! Copperas Pd Horseshoe Pond FISH Square CREEK POND Pond CAMPGROUND ?l Turtle Pond !8 Hoel Pond Trl Floodwood Rd ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ▼ ON THE WAY TO COPPERAS POND FROM FISH CREEK. PHOTOS BY RICH MACHA ! ! ! Polliwog Pond !8 Fish Creek Ponds !8 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !j !8 !j !j ( !8 !8 !8 !0 ! ! !Q (7) ! Ho Pon ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !8 !Q ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! C !!
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16 <strong>Adirondack</strong> <strong>Sports</strong><br />
Willard Hanmer Guideboat and Canoe Race<br />
“The Hanmer” is the longest running family fun<br />
canoe race in the <strong>Adirondack</strong> Park!<br />
In scenic Saranac Lake, the Green Side of the Big Apple • July 7, <strong>2024</strong><br />
Beginning in 1962, The Hanmer is a three and a half mile paddle on Lake<br />
Flower, with a short carry, and a continuation down the Saranac River to<br />
the finish line at the Fish and Game Club where there is a community<br />
picnic with family friendly events, vendors and live music.<br />
Perfect for beginners and veterans alike!<br />
For more information please contact<br />
greensideofthebigapple@gmail.com<br />
or contact Kathy at (505) 235-1268.<br />
PADDLING<br />
CANOES - KAYAKS - SUPS<br />
Rentals • Outfitting<br />
Tripping • Shuttle<br />
Guide Service<br />
FLY & SPIN FISHING<br />
OUTFITTERS<br />
Guiding • Sales • Service<br />
Bass Tracker Boats<br />
Lessons • Tours<br />
Half Block to Mirror Lake!<br />
2733 Main St, Lake Placid<br />
518-523-3764<br />
HighPeaksCyclery.com
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