a madison loop 7-9-12

[natron]

Great weather, great company, great hike! Been up Madison 4 times now, this is now my favorite route, up madison gulf trail, down howker ridge to pine link, cut thru dolly copp and finish back @ gg parking. I really enjoy coming from rt. 16 rather than rt. 2, last year went up buttress and down osgood a great loop too. I was surprised that the madison gulf trail wasn't as difficult as I thought/hoped it would be, still a great and fun trail!

Sam loves his 5 fingers for hiking, he did king ravine to adams, with these on with me previously.

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Campsite off the madison gulf trail, pretty birch site, however small 1 tent territory.

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Sam and Caleb @ a cool mossy falls

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a cool mossy falls

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Caleb going up madison gulf trail

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Sam points to "it"

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I don't see "it"

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Sam prepares to leap frog madison gulf, I forget how this ended..

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heading towards adams.

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too nice out to eat @ the hut, we rock hopped to a nice little wind buffer.

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alpine bee doing work, while we had a very relaxing lunch..

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nice picnic views

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[natron]

more madison loop

nice picnic views (minus me and Caleb )

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nice picnic view of madison

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Caleb top of madison

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howker ridge

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Sam color coordinates.

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the end

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[jake L.]

Waterfalls, stealth camps, busy bees, picnics, great views and company! Awesome day to be out and about. Wish I was there instead of work, but the great pictures will have tide me over. Any sign of Star the moose? Great TR, thanks!

 

[natron]

hey jake

no star moose, actually no moose sightings and a lot less droppings than I'm use to seeing this year (most of my hiking this year has been in baxter, evan's n., grafton n.) looks like you had a sweet backpack trip, love those peaks!