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It was a sunny, warm day here in the Southeast corner of the Adirondack Park in upstate NY. I got out for a nice long hike (nine miles) in the snow. I'm going to sleep very well tonight. 
Winter is finally losing its grip and the snow is melting...
The outflow from Millman Pond:
The lean-to at Fishbrook Pond:
While at Fishbrook Pond taking this photo, I heard a Raven croaking overhead. I looked up and was surprised to see the Raven harassing a bald eagle. They were thermaling or slope soaring as I watched and were getting W-A-Y up high. I could see them pretty well with my 10x binocs, so I tried to get a shot of them with my little camera, hoping I could crop a bunch of the 10MP photo and end up with something viewable. I wasn't able to get them at all. I couldn't even find them in the view screen. I think I may have needed to use the manual focus mode set to infinity, but they were getting too high and far away, so I gave up.
One of the remaining fire lookout towers in the Adirondack Park (no longer in use and capped with antennas) on Black Mountain:
I forgot to take knife and gear photos!
I used my Maxpedition Falcon II pack with a Blackhawk 3 liter hydration reservoir. I carried my Busse SAR 5 on my belt and a Vic Farmer in my pocket.
I started off the hike with my snowshoes strapped on my pack, but quickly returned to the truck to leave them behind. Luckily, I did fine without them and only broke through the very tough crust on the snow a few times. I hiked a couple of miles each way on sections of trail where snowmobiles had packed down the snow and walking was fairly easy. (Unfortunately, this area of state land is open to snowmobiling. But the terrain is pretty rugged so the snowmobiles most always end up single track on the narrow, marked snowmobile trails, which sometimes coincide with the hiking trails.)
Think Spring!
desmobob
Winter is finally losing its grip and the snow is melting...
The outflow from Millman Pond:
The lean-to at Fishbrook Pond:
While at Fishbrook Pond taking this photo, I heard a Raven croaking overhead. I looked up and was surprised to see the Raven harassing a bald eagle. They were thermaling or slope soaring as I watched and were getting W-A-Y up high. I could see them pretty well with my 10x binocs, so I tried to get a shot of them with my little camera, hoping I could crop a bunch of the 10MP photo and end up with something viewable. I wasn't able to get them at all. I couldn't even find them in the view screen. I think I may have needed to use the manual focus mode set to infinity, but they were getting too high and far away, so I gave up.
One of the remaining fire lookout towers in the Adirondack Park (no longer in use and capped with antennas) on Black Mountain:
I forgot to take knife and gear photos!
I used my Maxpedition Falcon II pack with a Blackhawk 3 liter hydration reservoir. I carried my Busse SAR 5 on my belt and a Vic Farmer in my pocket.
I started off the hike with my snowshoes strapped on my pack, but quickly returned to the truck to leave them behind. Luckily, I did fine without them and only broke through the very tough crust on the snow a few times. I hiked a couple of miles each way on sections of trail where snowmobiles had packed down the snow and walking was fairly easy. (Unfortunately, this area of state land is open to snowmobiling. But the terrain is pretty rugged so the snowmobiles most always end up single track on the narrow, marked snowmobile trails, which sometimes coincide with the hiking trails.)
Think Spring!
desmobob
