Mt Colden with Liz and Gary
June 2022

At the trailhead	a boardwalk	breached Marcy Dam
view from the Dam	crossing a stream	2.9 sounds easy
up a boulder pathway	that blends with streams	iffy boardwalks
very iffy	Lake arnold	we take a break
sheep laurel on the other side	along a cliff	mud, mud, mud
view under the clouds	slides on Giant	deer taile sedge on the false summit
and cotton sedge -- too windy to stay	a tricky spot that leads to a fall	new stairs
almost there	emerging from under the rock	more laurel
Algonquin in the clouds	avalanche lake below	glance back at the false summit
the great range and Giant	Lake Colden and flowed land	the descent begins
flowed land	descending through	alpine vegetation
old ladder	rock gate	wet rock
tricky descent	through the forest	new stairs
Lake Colden	a stream crossing	an american newt
Avalanche lake	the dike on colden	boardwalk on the cliffs
cliffs on Colden	lakeside trail	the end of avalanche lake
cliffs in avalanche pass	back to Marcy Dam and time for headlamps