March 2002 Hike to Skylight and Marcy with Zach and Nate

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Note to those who helped get Ron down from Marcy: a few pictures of Ron and his helpers appear near the end of this gallery; contact me at reiterc@lafayette.edu for a more complete set of that portion.
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View of the mountains
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The road to south meadow
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Gearing up
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and we are off
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Marcy Dam was beautiful
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but rain was expected, so we grabbed the Kagel lean-to
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And it did pour overnight
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Our first stream crossing
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Maybe if we stick together, Dad won't make us climb too many mountains
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View across Lake Arnold
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Into the col
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where the snow is deep
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The base of the Colden slide and the sky turns gray
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Along the Feldspar creek
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View of Marcy from Lake tear of the clouds
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Getting ready after a short, but much needed lunch break
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Skirting the lake's edge
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We make it to four corners (but no one has recently traveled to Panther Gorge)
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A quick climb of Skylight
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Standing against ice and sky
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360 animation from Skylight's summit cairn
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Resting with a view
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We gather on the summit
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Ice swept tree
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Zach and Nate by the summit cairn
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and enjoying the view
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Colden slide in the distance as the descent begins
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