AT & Lake Rutherford



AT & Lake Rutherford, High Point State Park (8/12/2006)

This is the Hike of the Week for 8/1/2002 as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference website.
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On the Appalachian Trail


Butterfly

Rocky Kittatiny ridge




Sawmill Lake

View west to Delaware Water Gap

 


Tent at Sawmill Lake


Sawmill Lake
 




Rocky descent

And rocky ascent
 



Mount Tammany?

View east from Kittatiny ridge

 



Lake Rutherford from AT

Searching for a cricket!

Split personality (self-portrait)
 



Caterpillar skins


View east from AT
 


View of ridge looking south

Lake Rutherford


 



View of north from Dutch Shoe Rock

Path to Rutherford lean-to

 


Old dividing wall on the Iris trail

They made their point

Iris "Smiley" trail blaze

Suitable for a tomahawk
 



Swamp

Dragonfly

 



Lunch at Lake Rutherford


This was Laura's idea
 


Cloud in the water

Rutherford is a Sussex reservoir


 





Dragonfly
 



Northern Leopard frog

Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle

Deer
 


Fleeing with her doe

Fern-laced Iris trail

Two wild turkeys (of at least a dozen)

Interesting trail marker
 

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