Planning our Flagstaff Lake paddle trip during the Fall Supper weekend was complicated by windy stormy weather. A gusty Saturday caused power outages around the state. Fortuitously, winds calmed overnight and we were rewarded with a cold but calm partly sunny Sunday. Ten of us in eight sea kayaks and a tandem canoe launched from a tiny cove near Myer’s Beach in the northwestern part of the lake. We enjoyed exceptional paddling conditions in the shadow of the Bigelow Mountain Range to a remarkable campsite in the central sector of the lake where the former Flagstaff Village was located before it was flooded when the lake was formed in 1950. This area has a very interesting history which was a part of the conversation throughout the trip. Our return was equally pleasurable.
Participants: Tom Meredith and Laurie Wunder – OC2; and Jean Miller, Gary Cole, Suzanne Cole, Kenny DeCoster, Allen Gaskell, Troad Richmond, Carolyn Atwood and TC Ron Chase