Jupiter Rising
Carter Camp - Potter County, Pa.
Fall has unofficially arrived here in central Pennsylvania, so Glen and I took our annual fall camping trip up to the dark skies of Cherry Springs State Park in Potter County this past weekend. The weather was refreshingly cool and crisp but the streams were a little on the low side in the Kettle Creek and First Fork drainages, so instead of fishing we cranked out a few glorious miles on the Susquehannock Trail where it drops down into Hogback Hollow and the headwaters of Cross Fork Creek. Cloudy Coudy skies moved in at night and put an end to any celestial observations we had planned for the two evenings that we were camped at Cherry Springs. It was a three dog night, overnight lows dipped into the upper 30's while the daytime highs barely made it out of the 60's. I barely made it out of the 60's myself, but that's neither here nor there right now. The only angling we did was for a brief couple of hours on Penns Creek at Poe Paddy on our way home. Penns was in excellent shape for autumnal angling and flowing at about 550 CFS when we were there. We caught a few (stonefly nymphs) and we missed a few. The highlight of the whole trip was spying a sow black bear and three tiny cubs suddenly dart across Poe Valley Road while my camera was securely stowed in it's camera bag. What else is new?
Cherry Springs Campsite
Sugar Maple
Cloudy around Coudy
Cherry Springs Fire Tower Cabin
Susquehannock Trail at the Cherry Springs Fire Tower
Hogback Hollow
Beaver Meadows
Highland Hardwoods on the Susquehannock Trail
Cherry Springs Vista
Cherry Springs Sunset
Dark Skies
Pine Creek at Slate Run
Floating on Pine Creek
Penns Creek
Star Party
CCC - Cherry Springs State Park
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4 comments:
Great post! Those are some fantastic waters you fished.
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Great shots Steve, as usual. I’m due for a trip up, maybe in a couple weeks. Otherwise it will have to wait until November.
We are fortunate that "da man" let us enjoy some time at our state parks. I was half expecting to end up at Rockview for parking more than one car at the campsite in the Paddy. You can't beat da man. Da man knows all things.
Johnny Cash was arrested by "da man" in 1965 for picking flowers in a public park.
You won't find that kind of nonsense up at the Rossiter Lodge :^)
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