Catlin Bay is a 2.8 mile hike round trip along the Northville-Placid Trail at a scenic location along the northeast shore of Long Lake.

Ed Kanze is a naturalist, author, and Adirondack Guide with more than forty years’ experience leading walks in wild places. A former National Park Ranger, he worked at Acadia National Park and Gulf Islands National Seashore, served as Curator of the Trailside Nature Museum in Cross River, New York, taught field ecology for the National Audubon Society, and was senior naturalist at the Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining, New York. Ed has deep roots in the Adirondacks. His great-great-great-great grandparents Daniel and Hannah Brownell carved a farm out of the woods along the Sacandaga River, ca. 1795.

Ed is the author of many books as well as a longtime nature newspaper columnist, magazine columnist, photographer, lecturer, and videographer. A graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont, Ed is well- traveled in his 6-million-acre Adirondack Mountain backyard and has led international trips to Australia, New Zealand, and Alaska.