Bondcliff on a windless day

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Billy

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Out-and-back to Bondcliff from a bathroom-less, parking-fee-less Lincoln Woods. Met a couple of criminals who had spent the night at Guyot campsite, showing complete lack of respect for the shutdown. I was about to give them a reprimand they wouldn't soon forget, but then I remembered I simply couldn't care less where they slept. Spent almost three hours on the summit. Pemi at that point (October 11th) was way past peak...most leaves had dropped. The complete absence of wind was amazing. Had a 4 hour drive home still ahead of me, so I set a firm 2:00pm time for leaving the summit...so at 3:33pm I left the summit.



Pemi ground is at full peak.
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Nothing says "wilderness" like a can of spray paint.
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Seeing this either makes you feel comfortable or it doesn't, but this is what you're standing on when you're on the famous Bondcliff outlook with the West Bond slides in the background.
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Layers of distance and brightness
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What a nice day
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Two people on Garfield
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More than two people on Lafayette
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Gorillapod on Bondcliff
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Gorillapod on Bondcliff again
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Driving eight hours roundtrip ... totally worth it
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The Lincoln Woods Trail is not always monotonous
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It's hard to beat the Bondcliff summit, something about that place always messes with my target times too. (of course, I am lucky to be an hour drive away). I did the 3 bonds out and back on weds (windless and sunny) and also encountered some bootleg campers at guyot. The shutdown rules are kind of funny in that they are utterly unenforceable. Noticed the spray paint too, there was another larger one past the one you posted in the quasi open area on Bondcliff trail where the hooligans made 3 boulders into a smiley face. Sad. Way worse than memorials. Surprising since its 7.5 miles from a road. Happy they left the bondcliff itself untouched--that is a national treasure in my opinion.
 
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