A skill not practiced is soon forgotten, so with warmer weather here, I took a hike out to East Fork Lake to do some tarp shelter building. The trails were mostly dry and spring blooms were everywhere so the hike was quite enjoyable. I arrived at the Beach Trail overlook camp and was pleased to see it was still clean from our last trash collection effort even though it looked to have been used recently. Overnight backwoods camping isn’t allowed at this park but it is obvious some people are doing it. This site is on a hilltop with easy access to the road so it’s probably a favorite of locals. Two trees next to the firepit were a perfect distance apart to string up the tarp and put it through its paces.