August 2001 Climb of Dial, Nippletop, Colvin, Blake, Nye and Street

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235k
Heading into camp; passing the first swimming hole
172k
the beaver dam
85k
a beaver
160k
Shoe box falls
222k
breakfast the next morning
146k
the lodge passed to access the Nippletop range
122k
a bump on Bear Den mountain
55k
Dix on the climb
100k
view of the great range from the bump
105k
Cliff in a shower on Dial
104k
Cliff in a shower on Nippletop
173k
Beaver pond in Elk pass
108k
Lower Ausable
62k
Basin from Colvin
260k
on Blake
105k
after meeting with hikers waiting for help between Colvin and Blake, Cliff crashes on Colvin
233k
Gill brooks water was welcome
111k
the next morning "shortcut" leads it a marvelous maze of beaver ponds
231k
but the climb of Nye is uneventful
101k
and one can sneak off Street to get a great view of the Algonquin range