Hiking (with the hounds)

Great pics Dave , and the last one , their all sacked out

 

What a treat for me to see these Dave! I've gone swimming in that pond on top as a kid. Cold... ! That's Webb Lake behind you in the shot of you on the east peak of Tumbledown. Our old camp was just on the other side of that point sticking out on the east (left) shoreline. Trees had some nice color. The trail you mentioned up the south face, the Chimney Trail, has steel rungs embedded in the rock to climb up. I've never been up that way but have heard all about it over the years from family members. Yep, prolly not good for dogs. The hounds look like they'd had enough anyway. Thanks for the pics...

 

Glad you enjoyed em.

There were people swimming/screaming in the water yesterday. The water I filtered to drink was fridge temp.

From what I read the old Chimney trail is now considered abandoned, the Rangers didn't want to maintain it anymore as the piece you are talking about requires a hand line for most people, and was considered too dangerous for such a popular hiking spot. The new trail up that face called the Loop trail still has a few spots with iron rungs in the rock but is not as dangerous. It still involves a squeeze through a chimney in the rock, called the "Lemon Squeezer" or "Fat Man's Misery"

I'll definitely be back, maybe camp overnight at the pond.

 

Thanks for sharing your day with us. Lovely views of the fall colours. Some things though can only be truly appreciated when you are there in person. Someday maybe we can join you for a hike.

For some of our alpine hiking years ago, we would find small puddles of water. Some with black bottoms would be quite warm and others were very chilly. All on a much smaller scale than what you were looking at.

 

That is a real pretty place.

 

Great Pictures, me and the wife and son made it to Acadia for the first time ever this August. We went on a windjammer cruise from Camden, ME. loved it there. Scratch one from the bucket list.

 

A windjammer cruise? Old fashion windjammer sailboat? Sounds great.

 

I was Linus in the Christmas play in the eight grade of the Charlie Brown Xmas show ," and the angels of the lord appeared before them, and they were sore afraid, and the angel said to them, be not afraid, for I bring you tidings of great joy. For born unto you in the city of David is a saivour Christ the lord" ............ I was 13 yr. old solo, scared, but I nailed it!

 

Looking down the Cog Railroad side of the mountain by Bretton Woods. My Camp is right across the road from the ski area. That's the first thing I see every morning when I go out the door. Now you know why I picked my Avatar name. I am in very special place

 

We had a cat that used to go hiking with us, she was raised alongside a Labrador. When we went hiking the dog followed along with us, and the cat stayed along with the dog. It was pretty neat.

 

Jealous for sure!

The year before we went up Ammonoosuc, a nice trail, you can hear the train most of the way up.

 

We swim in the Ammonoosuc, at the lower falls, it's not far from our camp. Walk or ride a bicycle down.

 

Took a long lunch at work today, no hounds today.
Champlain Mountain, some pretty awesome fall colors and some impressive rock work on the trail.

 

Thanks for sharing. The colours are awesome.

 

Took the day off from work to enjoy this beautiful mid winter day and run the hounds around in the woods a bit. We've got about five inches of snow on the ground, it was about 20f with a stiff wind of around 20 mph.

This area of the Island is called "Asticou" an Abnaki word thought to mean either "boiling kettle" or "island of many springs". There are many water features in the area, our trek in was along a mountain stream at the base of Asticou ridge which tops out at Eliot Mountain, named for Charles Eliot who along with George Dorr and John D. Rockefeller are considered to be the founders of Acadia National Park, having donated much of the land that is the park today. This little slice however is still privately owned.

Here we are at a stream crossing. Bailey, the Jack/Beagle has a thing for bridges, she won't cross them, but she will let me carry her, she was not going to sit for this shot.



Eliot Mountain overlooking Northeast Harbor.




An interesting spruce growing out of the side of the ridge. This is an exposed rock face about 30 feet high. The spruce is growing out of a crack near the base of the face, the base of the tree is above your head where the trail passes. It is a pretty large spruce easily 24" dbh and well over 100 ft tall. Pretty amazing that it can grow here!

 

Absolutely beautiful. Mother nature at her best. Dogs behaving very well. Interesting to see a mature tree growing in the ledge wall. Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks, I feel like I was there with you and very well behaved hounds.

 

Nice shots DaveGunter ... love the one of the 4 of em on the bridge...