Starting out at 7:20 AM, look how high the brook is.
Mushrooms sprouting from the recent rain.
Ferns and mushrooms
These must have just sprouted
Waterfall about half way up the trail
Another view
Note how wet the trail is
Summit stewards on the way to Algonquin Peak
There they go
Lily follows
Trail junction, we headed up the Wright Peak spur trail, .4 miles and 585 feet vertical to the summit
The spur trail is wet
Lily waits
Views just above tree line, behind me was socked in with clouds
The spur trail going up, note the sky is just a cloud
Mountain Lily
Sign
View
Looking towards the summit, the sun is starting to burn off the clouds
Algonquin Peak summit in the clouds
I left a rock
The summit clears!
BIg Al starts to clear
Cairn and view
Looking at Algonquin, nice perspective
Beautiful
The golden grass is called deer`s hair sedge
As we approach the Wright summit, Mount Colden comes into view
Big Slide from Wright
Summit puddles
Summit view
Algonquin from the Wright summit
Balancing act, how does it stay like that
Textures
Mount Colden from Wright
Mountain Lily rests on the summit
Colden view
Cairn and deer`s hair sedge
The duo
View with Whiteface in the distance
Heading back
Almost back at the car
Fungus
Jammed parking lot at the ADK Loj
Until next time
Panoptic
Cloud shadows panoptic
Algonquin under a cloud panoptic
Panoptic with cairn
Wright summit area panoptic
Two cairns panoptic
