wmpe2000: Mount Algo shelter
wmpe2000: Mt. Algo camp area on the Appalachian trail
wmpe2000: retrieving pack after rolling down slope
wmpe2000: 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
wmpe2000: 2nd water filtration stream - fast flowing water is much easier - Sawyer filtration system
wmpe2000: first water filtration stop was difficult in the slow flowing stream and extremely buggy
wmpe2000: stateline marker
wmpe2000: Schaghticoke mountain scenic overlook in the Taconic mountain range in the Appalacian Mountains
wmpe2000: possibly in the Solanaceae family with the fused stamens or perhaps the Malvaceae...
wmpe2000: Viburnum acerifolium - Mapleleaf viburnum
wmpe2000: Andricus quercusflocci - fuzzy oak gall - on young Quercus alba
wmpe2000: great blue heron on the Housatonic river
wmpe2000: trail bridge
wmpe2000: 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
wmpe2000: catch and release due to high PCB contamination
wmpe2000: helicopter circling overhead - later we learned two people were swept away and drowned by the current while swimming at Judd's Bridge
wmpe2000: view at 10 mile river campsite
wmpe2000: trail steps from native stone
wmpe2000: Appalachian trail symbol and direction
wmpe2000: ready to start - 33 and 42 pounds - 4 days 3 nights
wmpe2000: 33 pounds of gear