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This is the Hike of the Week for
8/8/2002
as described on the NYNJTC website. The highlight of this hike is the Cedar Swamp trail, one of the most spectacular trails in New Jersey -- not for
its views (there are none), but for its 800 foot boardwalk through the Cedar Swamp and for the seemingly endless rhododendrons one encounters along
its entire length. At times, one has to hike hunched over for hundreds of feet to get through them; in some areas they form long tunnels where only
tiny streaks of sunshine are allowed in. If you want to hone your ability to identify rhododendrons, hiking this trail is all you'll ever need. I
never saw so many in one place.
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 On the Cherry Ridge Trail |
 Millipede |
 Huge mushroom off Cherry Ridge |
 Past the first gate |
 Swamp south of Cherry Ridge trail |
 Swamp from overlook |
 Obedient Laura |
 Beaver lodge in swamp |
 Looks like a lake ... |
 ... but it's a swamp |
 Bridge over stream |
 So green! |
 Brownish eft |
 Red eft |
 Lake Lookout from northern tip |
 Reflections |
 Hungry bumble bee |
 Ferns on Lookout trail |
 Tiny frog |
 On Laurel Pond trail |
 Laurel Pond |
 Signs of fishing |
 Laurel Pond looking north |
 Laura at Laurel |
 Poor abused tree! |
 Bumble bees |
 Bikes are bottom of pecking order |
 Wawayanda Furnace |
 Dan being Dan [photo by Laura] |
 Stream across from furnace |
 Campers |
 Boardwalk on Double Pond trail |
 Swamp on Double Pond trail |
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 Boardwalk over swamp |
 Self-portrait [photo by Laura] |
 Lily pad [photo by Laura] |
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 The boardwalk ... |
 ... extends ... |
 ... about 800 feet |
 Rhododendron abounds |
 Dan in thicket [photo by Laura] |
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 Abandoned car |
 Dashboard |
 Taking previous pic [photo by Laura] |
 Fantastic rhododendrons |
 Tunnel of rhododendrons |
 Rhododendron roof |
 Last of the swamp |
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