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Mt Paugus - Saturday May 19, 2012

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Taking Big Rock Cave trail to Mt Paugus.
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Up Big Rock Cave Trail and down via Cabin Trail. A nice 8.1 miles loop.
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0.3 miles at the split.
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Geneva following Gillian up the trail.
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Arrived at the Big Rock Cave.
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Dani contemplating climbing up the rock.
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There she goes.
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Geneva was anxious the whole hike, as if she was wondering the whereabout of Christine.
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Geneva waiting for Chrisitne to catch up.
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Dani climbed up the rock.
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Big Rock Cave.
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Geneva just didn't seem relax at all.
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The look of worry on Geneva's face.
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Geneva kept running down the trail looking for Christine. When we met up with Jen on her way down, we thought it would be best to send'Neva home to her mommy with Jen.
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Hiking up a drainage.
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The trail looks less defined here.
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Oh good, a cairn, we 're on trail.
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Not so apparently the cairn marked a right turn but we didn't see the turn. We ended up staying in the drainage.
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Hmm... are we still on the trail?
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Lets pray to the leaves to show us the right way...
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We climbed up a steep section and realized we're off trail, no way we're heading down the same steep section we just climbed up. So decided to forge ahead, bushwhacked back to the trail.
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Dani and Gillian making their way back to the trail.
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Back on trail!
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Very happy to see the yellow blaze on the tree.
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Trillium.
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Views from the trail.
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Blurry image of Gillian in the background.
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Junction of Bee Line and Old Paugus trail.
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View from Old Paugus trail.
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We climbed up to a small opening, thinking that it was the first *star* on the map.
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We took a long break here.
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Only less than 20 feet up from where we stop for the long break is this awesome open ledge with much better view. D'oh!
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Dani coming up to join me at the open ledge.
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Yup, could have had our break here.
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More up to go.
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Another opening.
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The trio on the 2nd star. May be?
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Dani and Gillian checking out the view.
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Mt Chocorua.
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A short break.
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Arrived at the biggest open ledge.
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Nice place to camp.
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Gillian and Dani.
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I think it is finally all downhill from here...
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Cool spider web.
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This poor thing was mending its home.
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Lawrence trail was very pleasant.
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Lawrence trail.
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Lawrence trail.
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Lawrence trail.
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Junction of Lawrence trail and Cabin Trail. We almost missed this turn.
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Junction of Lawrence trail and Cabin Trail.
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Another split after the junction, we'd stay on Cabin trail to merge Big Rock Cave trail.
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Rehydrate!
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Cabin Trail.
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Cabin Trail.
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Back at the junction of Cabin and Big Rock Cave trail.
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Bloody junction.
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Gillian unintentionally posed as the hiker symbol on the sign.
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I pledge allegiance to the sign of Hiker...
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Goofy! Fun day out with the girls!
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