The Boat House - That was Easy- Not!

Theresa and I set off recently with my friend Karl to explore and old boathouse at the Quabbin. We had found this in 2008 and it looked like this at that point in time:

So off we went armed the a map and the UTM of the location. 








Should be a piece of cake for two Search and Rescue guys! I remember it being right on the shore. We hiked along a couple of roads and headed down to the shore. Took a left and started looking for the structure.  On we went looking around every corner until we were at the powerline !   What ?? 



How could we have missed it?  Wrong UTM?  That didn't seem likely but what the heck let's wander back up to the end of the cove.  It was a glorious day after all and the frozen reservoir was booming and groaning. Along the way Karl snapped great pictures of stumps, which were submerged many years ago and have now surfaced and drifted into little areas where eddies exist.








All around us was very cool driftwood.




Karl takes great pictures without a doubt.


Well we reached the end of the cove and still no boathouse!   The lost-boys conferred.



It didn't just disappear.  Or did it? 

We entered the Lat/ Long and double checked our UTM and the description from the Geocaching site we had used in 2008 to find it. The site said the cache had been removed.   We shot and azimuth and low and behold found a small area along the shore were it had been.  DCR must have removed the decaying structure at some point.  Mystery solved.  We headed off to find a lunch spot.






Ah nothing like a sunny spot for lunch.   We broke out the WhisperLite and cooked some grub.





After that we finished the hike in the usual fashion.  A good old bushwack using a combination of terrain association, dead reckoning, and compass skills.  A fine day indeed.