Extreme loop: The Garden to Saddleback, Basin, Haystack, Skylight and Marcy;
Miles 25.3, Cumulative Ascent: 9360 feet.
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Jay wilderness |
Dix wilderness wandering |
Get to camp with a splendid sky. |
Make trailhead a 5a, so the first pictures are kind of blurry |
southside trail is muddy |
the sun sneaks onto Johns brook |
lovely spot |
I peek at the new bridge by the interior outpost |
stream near the ore bed lean-to |
trailside rock |
hobble bush in bloom |
up the trail |
bed of bluets |
and oil from the moss |
a spider's web |
trail side slide |
I know which way the trail goes |
neat rock |
a fern stretches by the indian poke |
reaching the fine views of saddle back for breakfast |
summit vegetation |
old marker |
trail on the edge |
and worse, it goes down |
soon enough to the col and calming trout lilies |
and red trillium |
a view back |
red tipped goblet lichen |
trail nearing summit of basin |
more views |
and rest |
stream/trail |
some clouds on reaching little haystack |
snow patch on Marcy |
a dark-eyed junco visits on the summit |
Marcy and panther gorge |
leather leaf |
tamarack |
descending to wet junction |
down into panther gorge |
climb, climb, climb to the summit of skylight |
a rest |
views all around |
labrador tea sheltered between rocks |
diapensia |
lapland rosebay |
alpine azalea |
magnolia warbler |
over to Marcy, view back to skylight |
plenty more to climb |
views all |
around |
a rest |
tree creeping along the rock |
lovely catkins (?bearberry willow) |
snow patch up close |
reaching treeline |
light dims by JBL |
the day ends with blurry hare |
Next day, ascending the herd path to Jay |
Canada Mayflower |
white baneberry |
hanging from a rock |
bunchberry |
star flower |
foam flower |
rose twisted stalk |
chipmunk |
reaching views |
trees in flower |
wild strawberry |
deer tracks |
three toothed cinquefoil |
garden like walk on the ridge |
with more to go |
favortie lookout rock |
great views |
last drop |
look back from the ridge |
and great views |
marker (beyond the summit) |
but amid garden |
white throated sparrow sings his heart out |
returing to the ridge |
pearly crescentspot |
pasture rose |
bud |
wild columbine |
descent through red pines |
blue eyed grass |
wood betony |
porcupine |
rest bya stream |
water strders on a waterbed |
bee on boxers |
a favorite cedar |
dam building |
keeping a wary eye |
another swim by |
pink lady slippers |
Into the dix wilderness: morning beams into an abandonned beaver pond |
breakfast by the stream |
big rock |
maple with the red |
painted trillium |
waterflows |
waterflows |
waterflows |
swallowtail butterfly |
A grouse flew at me and feigned hurt;
its head seemed smooth;
perhaps the spruce grouse?
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wild geranium |
waterflows |