Daily Photo - Day 16

I walked all the trails on the Northern end of the Red Sandstone Trail this morning from the Northern terminus parking to the tip of Sugar Island including the cross trail and both shore trails, a total of 5.56 miles. It is easy hiking, all level. It was kind of wet though because of all the rain last night. The panorama is a view from the North end of the Island looking North toward Potsdam. The leaf and fern photo was shot on the central trail that runs along an old RR bed.

The piles of stones in the panorama are remnants of old piers for a trestle of some sort but they are a puzzle because they don't align with the old RR bed. There are piles of rocks to the left (out of the photo) that do align and several other rows of rock piles in this area of the river that seemingly go nowhere in particular. I'm going to have to visit the Potsdam Museum and see if they have records of what those rock piles represent.

The shoreline trails are interesting. The central RR bed trail, not so much. It is overgrown with large ferns that the power company beats back line trimmers. The maintenance on the shore trails is apparently left to Laurentian ADK.