Before the dam

I found this interesting picture of one of our members, Robbie Noel (right) and two guests (Jim Bussiere and Andrew Ferris) taken in May of 2009. This was taken where the dam exists today, the lake gently emptying into the falls on its way down to Little Green lake.

It is still my opinion that the spillway (dam) construction was a waste of taxpayers money, however I also believe that the construction and or improvement of the roads to get the heavy equipment up here was what saved the club. At that point membership had dwindled to half or less of today’s numbers as we were all reliant on our guardian to get us in and out. The roads were poorly maintained if at all by the Zec management. 

The spillway was built the following spring in 2010 and our membership over the next several years started to grow again as we were now able to drive our own 4x4 vehicles up the mountain and on our own schedules.