the weekend at Three Mile Lake's warden's cabin

[Dusan Soudek]

My partner Bev and I spent Saturday night at the warden’s cabin. We had no problems hiking in as the trail (i.e., portages) was covered with packed snow. All the wet spots that bedeviled us on February 15 were either completely dry or frozen over.  We had no problems whatsoever getting onto or off the ice of the four lakes that we had to cross.

 

In fact, we had the opposite problem: The was no open water whatsoever near the cabin and we had to chop a hole in the ice at the cove to get water for our coffee and tea. It was above zero and drizzling lightly on the way in, there was a dusting of powder overnight, and below freezing today, making for easy travel in the woods. On the way back to AeroTech Drive we took a side trip via an old road to Birch Lake, and admired the bare peak of Target Hill on the other side of the lake. But we had neither time nor energy for a summit attempt.

 

In the cabin I found an interesting pencil inscription: Bud Inglis (and Doug Bowes), 14 June 1990, gathering material for the book “Backwoods Cabins of Nova Scotia.” The book came out later the same year, but, alas, it doesn’t feature the old warden’s cabin at Three Mile Lake...

 

Dusan Soudek

 

[Dave Greene]

Any tips on finding the Warden Cabin once on Three mile lake?  I think My wife and I are gonna go have a look for it tomorrow, during / after, the storm.

THanks

[Leigh Woltman]

Hey Dave:

The new Google maps is throwing me off, but try this link. If you switch to satellite view you should be able to almost make out the cabin. If that doesn't work, the cabin is at the absolute northern most point on the lake, obscured from view by trees until you are almost at it.

http://www.google.ca/maps?q=44.823074,-63.510654

Cheers,

Leigh

Leigh

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[Dusan Soudek]

The cabin is located only about 5 m from the tip of the northernmost cove of Three Mile Lake. Impossible to miss once you are on the lake. But the country there is very rough, hence nearly impossible to bushwhack. You need to folllow the marked portages. See the archive for a link to Dan Hutt's Flicker page for a neat GPS track from the end of Aerotech Dri  ve, where you park by the sewage treatment plant, to the warden's cabin.

 

Here is a wish list for the cabin: More old newspapers (for starting a fire in the stove), a functioning frying pan (the old one is incredibly rusty), more kerosene for the oil lamp. Hint, hint, hint.....

 

Dusan Soudek

[J David Ripley]

One further note....
The trail can become very waterlogged after a rain. Much of the trail borders or crosses low ground
Dave r


Dusan Soudek <sou...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: