I did end up going on that second hike up Green Mountain with my buddy Dimitri and we had a heck of a long, scenic adventure. Figuring aimless wandering, the whole hike probably spanned 14 miles. We got so distracted with conversation and what-not that we completely lost the trail and ended up hiking around the top of the mountain for a couple hours looking for a path. Some of the terrain was very rugged, especially when we decided to take a shortcut down a steeply pitched section with lots of dense brush and loose rocks. I ended up tweaking my old knee injury a little when I fell and landed just the wrong way, but it isn't horrid and should be back to normal within a few days. We saw a lot of beautiful swamps & boggy areas as well as a fleeting glimpse of a bear. We also ran across a ruggedly-constructed camp in the middle of nowhere. It was made out of scrap rubber, cut logs, and tarps, and it had a nasty, threatening sign just inside the doorway that cautioned trespassers that they would be killed or something like that. Dimitri thinks it might be the abode of a homeless person, possibly mentally ill (this would explain the super-paranoid-sounding message on the sign).
A beautiful panoramic pic of a boggy area on the southern top part of the mountain. Click to see it in more detail.
Cool growth of odd orange fungus on a stick.
Pink Lady's Slipper Orchid,
Cypripedium acaule.
Some sort of cool Lichen with red tops (spore capsules?).
A beautiful panoramic pic of a boggy area on the southern top part of the mountain. Click to see it in more detail.
Cool growth of odd orange fungus on a stick.
Pink Lady's Slipper Orchid, Cypripedium acaule.
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Very swell pics! I miss the ladyslippers especially, being in massofchewyzits (massachusetts) and all. And the lichens are called British soldiers. I learned this in elementary school science class and it has always stuck with me.
"British Soldiers", that's a cool name for them. Thanks, I'll remember that :).
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