Baxter Backpack - Russell Pond/Wassataquoik Lake Island/Davis Pond

[blaze]

A few shots from our Labor Day weekend hike in Baxter. I was a bit slow going through the photos and posting them after I got home... =)

Sandy Stream Pond

Russell Pond

Green Falls

Wassataquoik Lake

Davis Pond

Carnivorous (insect-eating) sundew plant, Davis Pond

Northwest Basin Trail

Katahdin summit from Hamlin Peak

It was a wonderful trip. I'm happy with these pics and the rest of them (gallery, slideshow) but there's no doing justice to the place in photos. Looking forward to getting back there in October!

Thanks for looking,
Jonathan

 

[peakbagger]

Great shots, I was heading north on the Northern Peaks trail on Sunday, I expect you were hiking up Northwest basin on Monday?

 

[blaze]

Great shots, I was heading north on the Northern Peaks trail on Sunday, I expect you were hiking up Northwest basin on Monday?

Thank you! Correct, we hiked Wass. Island=>Davis Pond on Monday, Davis Pond=>Roaring Brook on Tuesday. Sorry we missed you!

 

[TJ aka Teej]

Wicked nice photos, Green Falls is a hard earned treat!

 

[psmart]

Thanks for sharing! Brings back great memories of several great trips to the Russell Pond area.

 

[Daniel Eagan]

Thanks for the wonderful photos

 

[peakbagger]

I asked around a bit and none of the park staff knew anything of the two new backpacking trails North of the Katahdin. One will run from the new Center Pond Lean to between Fort and Mullen Annis brook and connect up with the NW basin trail. The other one will extend the dead end spur off the Katahdin Lake trail between North and South Turner to the Wassatquoilk Stream Trail. If and when they get built they are really going open up some nicer longer backpacking loops.

 

[TJ aka Teej]

The other one will extend the dead end spur off the Katahdin Lake trail between North and South Turner to the Wassatquoilk Stream Trail.

I think it might go over N. Turner. That one's 'whackable, but I've never been up.