The first plan for this destination was as follows:

Drive to Star Lake, heading E on NY3, turn R 1.9 miles on Youngs Rd. to trailhead parking

Hike 7.3 miles to Buck Pond on Boundary Trail 75

0.6 marked with yellow discs then turn L to

1.1  miles (0.5 more) marked with red discs, jct. old Buck Pond Trail on L

2.1 miles Little Otter Pond

2.3 miles Little Otter Pond outlet

3.1 cross vlei

3.4 re-cross Little Otter Pond outlet

4.9 beaver flooding, bushwhack R around it

5.3 jct. RR bed R, gate across it, trail goes L

6.1 crest hemlock hill

7.3 jct. Cage Lake Trail 60 R, at Buck Pond

Hike 0.9 miles to Cage Lake Lean-To

[Spend Friday night here]

On Saturday, bushwhack approximately 2.3 miles on a True heading of ~260, or Magnetic ~246, generally a little South of West, from the Cage Lake Lean-To to intersect the southernmost end of the Middle Branch Oswegatchie Trail 79, also know as the Totten-Crossfield Trail.  Our actual route will take us more SW to follow the N shore of Cage Lake until we reach it's W end.  Then we will continue SW on a bearing of 244° Magnetic about 1.25 miles, generally following an inlet of Cage Lake, staying in the valley at roughly elevation 1800'.  After about 1.25 miles, we should turn NW.  If we go 1.5 miles we will intersect the Middle Branch of the Oswegatchie River and this should serve as a baseline.  From the turn we head on a bearing of 308° Magnetic about 1.75 miles to intersect Trail 79.  This end of the trail is at the River.

From here we will hike 5.6 miles N along Trail 79 to the Streeter Lake Lean-To.  About 0.5 miles from finding the Trail 79 terminus we can look for the granite Totten-Crossfield marker set by Verplanck Colvin.  

[Spend Saturday night here]

Sunday we hike out to the Youngs Road trailhead 3.5 miles along the Streeter Lake Trail 74. 

Lean-To locations

Cage Lake 8.4

Streeter Lake ~17-18