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neat... good to see they've kept the typography essentially the same.

neat pics. I've been there but only as day hikes, not backpacking. the repetitive hooting is a foghorn. ok, time for some plant decoding: Campanula rotundifolia and Lathyrus japonicus. The leaves are beach pea, the flowers are bluebells. Both very common downeast on rocky shores. Clintonia...

this and this and this is sort of what I was talking about -- the camera itself doesn't have a GPS receiver but can take in the signals from an external device.

ditto. I would have guessed Apios americana or Amphicarpaea bracteata, but neither of those look quite right.

I'd rather have a high-quality camera with a built-in GPS receiver, than a GPS receiver with a built-in camera. The good camera manufacturers know what they're doing, and the sense I get of Garmin is that the "value" they add to their GPS receiver is the packaging of antenna/battery/screen +...

the gentians are out already????? :( they're usually end-of-summer plants many of them don't open, somewhat of a let-down.

bandana worked I tried a bandana last weekend while hiking in the southern Presis, and it worked well -- much better than my hat. thanks all!

Gaultheria hispidula. Too bad the berries are so small and so uncommon, they're rather tasty.

All genera in the Caprifoliaceae have leaves in pairs and many (Diervilla, Lonicera, Linnaea) have flowers in pairs. Here's Lonicera canadensis: I'm not familiar with all the Lonicera species in our area, but I do recognize the yellow-orange flower color of Diervilla lonicera. I don't have a...

hmmm... are you sure that's not Diervilla lonicera? If I remember correctly the difference between Lonicera sp. and Diervilla is the leaves are smooth-edged vs. toothed-edged.

a very good day for photography in the Presidential Range cloudy (& windy), cloud ceiling looked to be about 5500ft. Epilobium hornemannii (90% positive, those Epilobium sp. can be tricky) Vaccinium cespitosum (dwarf bilberry) -- note toothed-edge leaves and conical flower. Betula...

the ?'s are Geum peckii (mountain avens) and Salix uva-ursi (bearberry willow).

how mean & nasty & ugly is the Great Gully Trail up the west end of King Ravine? I've hiked up the King Ravine Trail before & found it strenuous but not daunting.

Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel), probably Daucus carota (wild carrot = Queen Anne's lace), and Achillea millefolia (yarrow), respectively. Unfortunately all are non-native. I've never seen Anagallis arvensis in person, so that's a neat photo for me to see.

Success Pond road isn't usually too bad -- it's there for logging trucks so they keep it in fairly decent shape. Sandwich Notch road should definitely be on the list. I drove over it once in my Corolla and it was passable but I won't drive it again (IIRC it was narrow and had very little sight...

ah -- good idea. Cherchez la webbe... http://www.botany.ch/alps.htm that seems to be a decent resource, e.g: http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356570696249635138 -> Sempervivum montanum

!!!!!!!!! you seriously need a local field guide, I think. Here's some narrowing-down to genus or at least family (ends in -aceae below) http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572378022036658 -> Asteraceae (not much help...)...

the same thing happened to me out in Montana last year! All I can think of is that it had a nest right near the trail.

[music to RoadRunner cartoon] Dry River... if it catches you, you're through....

if you ever want to have a more strenuous hike, skip the AT between Success and Carlo (ugghhhh)... for that matter Mt Carlo also... and do all 3 Goose Eye peaks and Fulling Mill Mtn. much more satisfying. MichaelJ and MEB and Little Sister and I did this hike a few years ago, there must be a...