Fall is in the air… a cold front came in overnight last
night and it is chilly today! The forecast is calling for nice weather, but
cool temperatures. The leaves already started changing a while back. The 2014
summer season will soon be winding down for us at both the Resorts & the
Outposts.
For the rest of September, the drive-in resorts are almost
full with walleye fishermen and bear hunters. The walleye fishing is still
great on both lakes and so far our bear hunters are 4 for 6. We have a few more
coming, so we will see if they get all of their bears. It’s been more of a
challenge this year with the abundance of blueberries in the forest.
October & November will bring on the moose and deer
hunters and of course, our regular “Musky Hunters”. They will brave the cold
weather and go for the monsters using the live sucker minnows that we provide. We
can’t really say our season is coming to an end just yet. Mid-November we will
be shutting things down for the winter (aside from the ice fishermen that come
up starting in December).
As for the Outposts, we still have a couple more groups to
fly out, but that is it for this year. With the Outpost business less busy
right now, this is our window of opportunity before freeze up to do upgrades on
the Outpost cabins. We have a long list of things to do so hopefully the ice
holds off as long as possible. So far we are planning on new walkways at
McVicar, and a new roof on the fish house and a new boat ramp at McVicar. We
are going to extend the deck at Antenna, put a new boat ramp in at Bertrand,
and clean up the yard at Otatakan. Grace is going to get a new outhouse and the
walkways will get completed, the cabin and deck at Dobie are going to get
leveled-up, and we are going to replace the boats at Meen Lake. And the work
continues at Kapikik as we must finish the bathrooms, finish the walkways, and
a few other finishing touches before we can call it “complete”. We’ve also
started “shutting down” the Outpost cabins. They are getting a good cleaning
top-to-bottom, and everything is getting put away properly for the winter.
Once the Outpost work is finished, and if the weather is
still cooperating, we are going to start on a new office building at Northern
Lights Resort. The new building will be the new “Outpost Headquarters”. This
will be the check-in office, storage building, and also living quarters for
Wayne & Karla.
Lots of work to be done in such little time! We are also working
with a company to build a new website, which will be launched this fall. We
will have all of our Outpost Lakes on the site, including our new ones, as well
as all three Drive-In Resorts. The new site will have helpful information such
as what to pack for your trip, and an online version of our new brochure!
Stay tuned for pictures of upgrades, construction, and other
exciting things going on at Clark’s Resorts and Outposts! And of course, watch
for our new site to launch later this fall at www.clarksresorts.com.
Until next time,
Meagan J
