Beauty Shots
Specially selected images of artistic sights on the trail.
Images 11 to 15 of 109
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Harts Pond / Fall - Pholiota squarrosoides and Purple Toothed Polypore These two species of fungus are mingled together within the same tree, their fruiting bodies just emerging into the air through cracks in the wood and the bark. See also… 10/29/2005 |
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Harts Pond / Fall - Golden Mushroom From Bark This mushroom is distorted by the pressure of the bark fragments around the opening from which it is emerging. By a coincidence, a leaf of almost exactly the same color is lodged in the same bark. See also… 10/29/2005 |
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Harts Pond / Fall - Radial Twig Scar This shows the structured pattern of a small piece of broken wood. The missing twig has left behind a break with a radial pattern of wood fibers. See also… 10/29/2005 |
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Behind Mount Sam Adams Perhaps the best view of the hike, this exemplifies the adventure of that day. As we descend this part of the trail, the trail signs are sketchy and possibly misleading. We have to cross a snowfield, postholing from time to time. The clouds boil up a thousand feet into the sky to our left. We're starting to worry about being late. What was supposed to be a ten hour hike is already far into the seventh hour and Sue is expecting us in less than four more hours. So we have four hours to make a descent across the unknown amount of steep snow that our ascent has made us suspect must be choking the upper trails of the Israel Ridge, descend a steep and rugged trail across stone, mud and roots, and then follow the river to the trailhead. The trail we are about to follow heads fairly directly toward the cloud wall. You can see a bit of it traced by snow just past the snowfield, curving right, where it ultimately leads to the Israel Ridge Trail. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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Harts Pond - Little Person Gall Through either astonishing coincidence or the facility with which the human mind sees figures and faces everywhere, this insect gall has created a remarkable "toy person". See also… 3/13/2005 |
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