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This is hike #21 ("Great Swamp Wilderness Trail") from the book
60 Hikes within 60 Miles: New York City (1st edition). We did this hike back in
2005 in the middle of a hot summer, when insects of all colors and sizes ate us alive.
This wasn't a problem today. The swamp was totally frozen, and it snowed during the entire hike, making the ice on the trail even more slippery by
the time we finished. Both of us actually fell on our butts, within a couple of minutes of each other right near the end! We're both fine.
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 Goofing at the trail head |
 Ice was all over |
 First canal crossing |
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 Frozen leaves |
 Second canal crossing |
 Gumball from a sweetgum |
 Canal |
 LB was here |
 Laura's favorite tree ... |
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 Frozen swamp |
 Smiley blazes :) on Ivory trail |
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 Gaggle of Canadian geese |
 Open marshland off Ivory trail |
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 Canadian geese |
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 Phragmites |
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 Strudy bridge over creek |
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 Chipping sparrow |
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 Canadian goose on the blaze |
 Burnt trees of Blue trail |
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 On the Red trail |
 Nose-like mushrooms |
 Anybody home? |
 Massive oak at end of Red trail |
 Giant blown-down beech |
 Philip & Mary, 1968 |
 Beech blow-down |
 Posing like a big game hunter [photo by Laura] |
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 Leafy icy Blue trail |
 Color! |
 Ice on creek bank |
 Fresh snow on ice |
 Back to the sturdy bridge |
 Lots of ice |
 Another huge blow-down |
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 Frozen swamp |
 Tiny evergreen |
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 Super-macro of tiny snowflake |
 Damned ice! (Laura is laughing; she was OK.) |
 Snowing more steadily |
 View down gas line cut |
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