After a delicious breakfast at Pittston Farm – complete with Guy’s homemade donuts – we packed camping and fishing gear into the car. In our beat up Ford Explorer we had miles to go on dirt roads before we made it to an access point for Fifth Pond. From the road, we flushed both Gray Jays and a Spruce Grouse, boreal species of birds. A moose trotted off down a side logging road, turning to stare at us with its giant head and shaggy fur.

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