mudhook
02-16-2006, 04:30 PM
Beautiful day in the 50's, blue skies,little wind. Went up from seager trail, barebooted to 3200' when I changed to snowshoes to keep from postholing thru the softening snow. 6-8" new snow on top of the old crusty stuff. Snow was clumping up at times, but not to bad. Signed the canister and headed off towards Graham, not to climb but to take another route back . Wore SShoes to 2800' down, very sticky, several good viewpoints on this route. Traversed the Flatiron stream to avoid the private camp at the bottom, coming out down stream about 600 yards. Don"t try to follow this route unless you can avoid the camp at the bottom.
Coming home the river looked very inviting,so I grabbed my kayak and yakpad, and took a short paddle down the East Branch of the Delaware. Drifted right under a Bald Eagle who took off when I reached for the camera in my pocket, which turned out to be my Gps. Again no pictures but I got his coordinates. On the way out, the skies were clouding up to the north, storm on the way.
For those interested there have been at least 4 Bald Eagles 2 mature, 2 immature along the prepaction res. and the east branch around Margaretville this past week.( Rt 30 corridor.)
Coming home the river looked very inviting,so I grabbed my kayak and yakpad, and took a short paddle down the East Branch of the Delaware. Drifted right under a Bald Eagle who took off when I reached for the camera in my pocket, which turned out to be my Gps. Again no pictures but I got his coordinates. On the way out, the skies were clouding up to the north, storm on the way.
For those interested there have been at least 4 Bald Eagles 2 mature, 2 immature along the prepaction res. and the east branch around Margaretville this past week.( Rt 30 corridor.)