Ready to go. The nature center we drove 8 hours to get to was closed. We winged it.
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Cranberry Wilderness 2003
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Ready to go. The nature center we drove 8 hours to get to was
closed. We winged it.
Overall, really nice clearing, three hours in, around 5:00.
This is when we saw the beginning of rain.
A
nice picture, with the sun coming thru after rain the 1st day. About 7:00
p.m.
We're all soaking wet, but packs are dry.
This was a florescent-orange
salamander. We're talking construction cone orange.
After a long 1st day, we camped well. This is the next morning.
This is on the mountain top. Note the "level" area we found.
Check out the hammock.
This is
during the day, we found a covered space in a rock formation.
The guys are standing in front of a cave in the rocks, where someone
has built a little wall for wind, we assume, at the mouth of the cave.
This is what a typical mountaintop clearing looks like.
Not all tops are open, but this area is all ferns.
Another pic of this clearing. Just opened up out of nowhere.
We
hiked Fisherman's Trail. These 2 pics are during this.
The stream started out as the trail we were hiking down.
At the bottom
of Fisherman's trail, we crossed a bulging river.
The speed of the river was pushing some serious water.
These are pictures of us crossing the river.
We COULD NOT let our packs get wet. Priority #1.
The right pictures are close-ups of the pictures on the left.
E was last to cross, so he's the one who looks like the retard
in the pictures. Greg led the way, and we were sheep.
You can see
how wet G & E are, after crossing. E's showing what the depth of the river
was.
Next to us was just a feeder river into the Cranberry.
We hiked
along some more, found this tributary, where we crossed and camped. This
concrete bridge was built in 1958, and it's flooded by about 4 inches of
water. If we had jumped in, we would have simply been sucked through,
maybe not coming out on the other side.
2nd
night. We put a damn tree in the fire, as you see here.
This guy
needed some help with drying out.
This
looked like a great trout stream, on our 3rd day of hiking 15 miles.
This
fern meadow is actually a 45 degree rise off the gravel trail.
Ryan during the 14-mile 3rd day.
Distance shot and cropped close up.
Campsite 3, and the next morning. Bears were about.
Look
at the airport sign in this picture.
The 4
backpackers, mission accomplished.
back to Goldmaniac
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Jay
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