Echo Lake West



Echo Lake West, Pequannock Watershed (6/26/2007)

This is hike #11 ("Echo Lake West Turnaround") from the book Hiking the Jersey Highlands (1st edition).
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Stone control shed from Echo Lake dam

Laura on see-saw

Laura and Echo Lake



Chipmunk

Echo Lake West trail hugs the lake

Cooperative frog

 

See Laura in his right eye?


Canadian geese

Leopard frog
 


Cormorants

Curious chipmunk

Fishing

Otters
 


Otters

View north

View south

View east
 


Rocky west bank

Swinging rope

Where Highlands trail branches off

Bear tracks in mud
 



Lichen-covered boulder

Frog

Brook crossing
 


Northern tip: our lunch spot!


View south from water level

 


Swamp near private property

Our lunch spot in the distance

Back to the dam

The dam photographer balancing
 

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