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trail mishaps - rain slicked glacial smoothed rock on a decline and slanting downhill - I fell saving my camera but not my side, my niece's backpack rolled down the hill and caught in trees preventing it from dropping off a vertical rock face
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2nd water filtration stream - fast flowing water is much easier - Sawyer filtration system
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first water filtration stop was difficult in the slow flowing stream and extremely buggy
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Schaghticoke mountain scenic overlook in the Taconic mountain range in the Appalacian Mountains
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we made camp late on our first night and I was sitting on this log eating and the place was coming alive with insects, amphibians - we quickly had to switch to red light
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helicopter circling overhead - later we learned two people were swept away and drowned by the current while swimming at Judd's Bridge