How did you cross the stream below the dam? Is the old wooden bridge still there? Last time I crossed it over a year ago it was rickety and coated with ice. I crossed on my hands and knees and the guy who crossed after me fell in.
Hmmm, I don't actually recall - that was just about daybreak and I was behind the others and not actually paying much attention to route, and we came out of the woods into a small field below the dam but I don't remember crossing the outflow - don't recall a bridge, but don't really remember any dicey stream crossing either.
Coming back up the west side we crossed over the power lines and then had to do some rock hopping (some icy) to cross the stream/marsh on the N side, but I don't recall crossing on the S side of the reservoir at all, but I know we came down east of there, then made a gradual turn to the west before heading up to it.