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FAVORITE PHOTOS - THE TOP TEN
These photographs are my ten most favorite from nearly twenty
five years on the trail. The highlighted red text links to the
Destination for this hike, or you can click the photograph to enlarge it to
640 x 480 pixels:
 Nomad, the
Wisconsin Brothers, and I got up early
for this sunrise at Bear Rock Falls along the
Appalachian
Trail
in western Massachusetts. The valley floor was
scattered with morning fog, and the resulting picture is one of my favorites
from the 1994 thru-hike. Jive Turkey (the eldest of the Wisconsin Brothers)
was so intent on catching the sunrise that he slept on a rocky outcrop that
overlooked the valley throughout the night.
 Day
3 wasn't much easier than Day 2 in Denali (although much better than Day 1).
This final bushwack down to the river was much harder than it looked from the
ridge where we spotted the Denali Park Road where we planned to catch the bus
outta here. The Joker and I took turns breaking trail in the thick
vegetation and we expected to see a moose at any minute since their scat was
everywhere, but all we saw were moseys and green thickets on the decent.
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Glenn's
Lake, Glacier National
Park, Western Montana - July 16, 1996.
 Mackie and I were on the trail at 9:15am this
morning, and immediately had to ford a river at the edge of Glenn's
Lake. The water was numbing with the summer snowmelt underway, but the scene
was epic. I snapped this photo from the opposite bank while Mackie clung to a
guide line that the park service set to counter the river current. We hiked
over 12 miles to return to our vehicle, but had completely run out of water
when we reached it. Fortunately, warm Molson's were in the cooler and we drank
them in the afternoon sun to quench our thirst.
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 Thick
clouds rolled across this hut in the White Mountains just before sunset. The
shelter sits on the Appalachian Trail and is appropriately named the Lakes of
the Clouds hut by the Appalachian Mountains Club (AMC). This photo was taken
from a ridge above the hut after I completed an evening hike to the summit of
Mount Washington with some fellow thru-hikers. We spent the night in an area
called "the dungeon" and paid $5 for the accomodations rather than the $65 for
access to the main facilities.
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Intermediate Lake, Isle Royale National Park, Northern Michigan - July 8, 1996.
 Mackie
and I were fishing one evening on Intermediate Lake in Isle Royale National
Park when I spotted something that looked like the Lochness monster in the
distance. It turned out to be a moose that was swimming across the lake
in the summer twilight. As we got closer, we could hear the moose
grunting his way across Intermediate Lake. I snapped this photo from the
back of the boat just before the Moose reached the shore.
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Flare and Bohemian posed for this photo on the summit of Mt.
Washington (which is marked by the sign to the left.) We met up with a
 large
group of thru-hikers for lunch in the summit cafe, then hiked to the Madison
Hut for the night. The place was packed with vacationers who had come to see
the fall foilage, but the crew let the thru-hikers stay for free (in exchange
for a few hours of work.) In the basement, I found $70 in a cardboard box
during my work assignment and turned it over to the crew. Two months later, I
got $15 in the mail. It seems the crew split $60 between themselves and sent
me the extra $15.
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Hood, Mt. Hood National Forest - North Central Oregon - July 20,
1996.
 The
Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) cuts through the Mt. Hood National Forest and it
shares a name with the Timberline Trail #600 near Timberline Lodge. Slawdog,
Mackie and I hiked this trail and camped near the base of Mount Hood next to
the PCT. I shot this photo in a meadow just off the Pacific Crest Trail
and we camped nearby and caught a great sunset from a rock outcropping in the
area.
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 Mackie
and I rolled into the White Sands National Monument in the late afternoon
during our cross-country road trip and we hiked and climbed the sand dunes for
a few hours before sunset. Mackie appears to be "floating" in this
photograph that I shot from a distance of about twenty feet, but he was
actually jumping off the sand dune. He positioned his body so it didn't
look like he had a running start.
 Wicked
Ale is shown in the foreground, while Tired Dogs crosses the Mill River
suspension bridge in Calrendon Gorge. We played in the gorge for an hour, then
hitched to the Killington Ski Area for a late lunch.
Tired Dogs, Laid Back Sue, and I walked toward Little Rock
Pond and heard some commotion ahead.
 Two
loud screams erupted from the lake, followed by a huge splash. Once we got to
the shore we realized that two people had jumped into the lake from a rock
outcropping about 30 feet up the ridge. It was hot, and this seemed like a
good idea to me. So we hiked to the other side of the lake, and I jumped. The
water was icy cold though, and I scrambled back to shore rather quickly. Laid
Back Sue and Tired Dogs couldn't be persuaded to follow suit, so we hiked
higher on the ridge and snapped this final picture of the lake before
continuing along on the Appalachian Trail.
OTHER PHOTO LINKS
 Appalachian
Trail Favorites
- This is a collection of my favorite photos from the AT,
many of which were taken during my 1994 thru-hike.
 Other
Favorites - These pictures are mostly from the west coast and the
Rockies.
 Southeastern Favorites
- These shots are from the southeast, where I do the majority of my hiking.
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