NOTE CHANGE IN HIKE STARTING TIME

Have you been enjoying the aroma of boiling maple sap in the air, since January?  Today, we’re going to enjoy this year’s Palm Sunday with a lunch of pancakes with this year’s maple syrup, a hike in a new location for our group, and conclude this great day with a social at the home of one of our newest members. 

We will meet today at Wohlschlegel’s Maple Farm, near the east end of Coates Rd., west of Naples.  For $7.00, you can get all the pancakes you can eat, 2 sausages and beverage.  Everyone I’ve ever talked to has given me great reports about the quality of their pancakes and syrup so, I’m looking forward to a treat.  Their pancake kitchen closes at 1 PM so, you will need to get there by 12:30 to enjoy your meal.  If there’s time after your meal, you can enjoy tours of their farm as well as samples of some of their maple products.  If you’re still hungry, or come late, there will be hot dogs and other items available.

Because you have to get there by 12:30 for your pancake lunch, we’re going to start our hike today at 1:30.  We will have our usual 3 hiking groups, starting on the snowmobile trail on their farm.  Mark, assisted by Duffy, will lead the climbers, possibly to the late Chuck Winship’s Sugarbush Hollow.  John Larysz has agreed to lead the tourists I will attempt to lead the naturalists.

After our hiking workout, John has offered to break bread at his home so, bring your broken bread and come on over.  You know the routine, same as last week, dish to pass or feed the kitty.

There will be no hike next week so, enjoy your Easter.  See you in 2 weeks, bright eyed and bushy tailed, or the other way around.

Directions:

Wohlschlegel’s Maple Farm, 8064 Coates Rd. Naples.  From Wayland.  Go east on SR 21.  Left on to CR 38.  At the end, go left at the T.  Left on Coates Rd.  Farm is on the left, about 1/2 mile.  Look for the bright purple roof.  There are also signs on the road to help you.  If your sweet Garmin lady tells you to enter Coates Rd. from Pardee Hollow, she doesn’t know that Coates is a rough seasonal road at that end, so you may want to make her recalculate.  According to Garry W., she’s been known to send people to a potato field.  Their phone number is 775-7770.

John Larysz.  8402 French Hill Rd., Naples.  From Wohlschlegel’s, turn right on Coates.  At the end, right at the T.  Go straight, to French Hill Rd. and turn left on it, till you reach John’s house.  It’s green, has a mailbox with the number on it, and there are not too many houses on that road.  Ms. Garmin should help you with this one but, if not, and you’re lost, call him at 374-8366, and you will be found.