Good Luck Lake Snow Shoe Hike

I can't believe how long it's been since my last hike. Arrgghh! Way too busy!

Anyway, the Alpiners scheduled a snow shoe hike for 25 January. Kathy and Gail led the group of 8 hikers (Dan, Dick, me, Randy, Evie and Nancy) and Brownie the chocolate Lab. The day was clear but cold and only a very little wind. Temps were about 20 degrees. Actually perfect snow shoe weather. We stopped at a trail head on Rt 10 next to the Sacandaga River just north of the Good Luck Lake outlet. We all got our snow shoes on and started out about 10am on a well used but unmarked trail. It was a fairly short, 1 mile or so hike to the north shore of the lake. We hiked along the north shore of the lake following a very faint trail, unbroken since the last snow fall.

Eventually we reached the westernmost end of the lake and found a snow machine trail. We followed that for a bit in the opposite direction we actually wanted to go, looking for a good lunching spot. Right on the edge of the lake was too cold with the wind coming across the lake, even with the sunshine, to have lunch. We did find a group of rocks and a fallen tree and made ourselves comfortable.

While lunching, we saw the first of several snow machines pass us by. This is a major snow mobile route and we expected to see quite a few during the trip. After lunch we packed up and headed north on the snow machine trail. At a major snow machine trail intersection we signed in at the trail register and then headed east on the intersecting trail.

Only 20 minutes later we were back on Rt 10 and the cars. We were done by about 1:15 or so.