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Full trip reports will be available in July.

April 22 (Monday) Earth Day Walk
Laurentian Chapter members commemorated Earth Day with a walk and shared readings on the Red Sandstone Trail.
L to R: Duncan & Lois Cutter, Janet Green, Susan Omohundro, Armond & Ann Spencer.
Photo: John Omohundro

April 21 (Sunday) Mud Season Potluck
Guest speaker Hadley Kruckzek-Aaron, of SUNY Potsdam’s Department of Anthropology, displays an artifact excavated from what is believed to be the Epps-Lawence homestead, the most successful of a number of operations that made up Timbucto, a pre-Civil War resettlement area for freed black men near Lake Placid.

April 28 (Sunday) Frontenac Park
We had a warm, sunny spring day for our circuit of the Gibson Lake and Testmine Lake Loops of the Frontenac Park trail system. We saw abandoned mica mines, old homesteads and lumber mills, many lakes and beaver ponds, and an overview of Moulton Gorge. We encountered a trio of fishermen on their way to a backcountry lake and a dozen backpackers from Brock University out for five nights; otherwise we saw very few people.
L to R: Brian Baston, Marianne Hebert, Toni Towle, Peter Blood.
Photo: TL John Barron

May 25 (Saturday) Indian Falls
Snow on Memorial Day? It happened at Indian Falls.
Front, L to R: Kathie & Joe Colarusso, Marianne Hebert.
Back, L to R: Brian Baston, Peter Blood, Tom Ortmeyer, John Barron.
Photo: Toni Towle

June 9 (Sunday) Cycling from Cape Vincent to Alexandria Bay
L to R at Tibbetts Point Lighthouse: Toni Towle, Peter Blood, TL John Barron.
Photo: Cyclist from another party.