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Greenville to Pittston Farm, 50 miles over Moosehead and Seboomook Lakes, Maine January 14-20, 2005 |
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Winter Walk Jam Session night before departure |
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Greenville tent village (our tent and toboggans at left) |
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Conovers' new Empire tent |
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Our tent at right |
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Loading toboggans |
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Getting ready to set off |
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Toboggans fully loaded |
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Conover toboggans |
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George at the start |
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On our way north |
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Conovers & photographers |
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more photography |
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Chatting with snowmobilers |
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Passing ice fisherman with truck |
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Lunch on a dock |
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Tom Jamrog with tent poles |
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Conovers heading toward Deer Island |
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Gail pulling |
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Garrett looking for a campsite |
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George examining pressure ridge near campsite |
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"On the Ice" Camp, 1/15 |
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"On the Ice" Camp, 1/15 |
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"On the Ice" Camp, 1/15 |
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"On the Ice" Camp, 1/15 |
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Brreakfast - George and Press Herald photographer, Herb Swanson |
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Roger & Gail interviewed by Press Herald reporter, Deirdre Fleming |
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George cleaning up |
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Breaking camp |
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George taking down ridge pole |
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Snowmobile "taxi" ordered by Press Herald to pickup Deirdre and Herb |
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Pressure ridge along island shore |
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Roger taking care crossing a pressure ridge |
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Pulling up west side of Deer Island |
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George and toboggan, with Mt. Kineo in distance |
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Conovers retrieving gear |
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Mt. Kineo coming into view in distance |
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Garrett looking toward Mt. Kineo |
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Glare ice |
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Pulling north to Kineo |
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Tom clowning at an ice gap |
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Examining an ice gap |
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Gail, Garrett, Roger, George, Alexandra |
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Stove in candle light |
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Breakfast |
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"Windy Lakefront" Camp, 1/16 |
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"Windy Lakefront" Camp, 1/16 |
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Tom Jamrog |
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Gail and George pulling their loads into the wind |
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Tom pulling north into wind |
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Roger taking a rest break |
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Morning break in lee of island |
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Toboggans pulled over Mt. Kineo land bridge |
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Pulling against the wind north of Kineo |
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Tom's pancakes |
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Roger's side of the tent |
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Tom with headlamp |
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Trusty Four Dog Stove |
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"Beaver Dam" Camp, 1/17 |
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"Beaver Dam" Camp, 1/17 |
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Conovers Tent |
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Pulling against the wind; Kineo in distance |
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Rest break out in the wind |
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Lunch on the lee shore, out of the wind |
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Sunrise from inside the tent |
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Sunrise at "Picnic Bench Bluff" Camp (-23F) |
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Sunrise at "Picnic Bench Bluff" Camp, 1/18 |
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Stove hard at work |
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"Picnic Bench Bluff" Camp, 1/18 |
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"Picnic Bench Bluff" Camp, 1/18 |
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Sunrise at "Picnic Bench Bluff" Camp, 1/18 |
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Tom with his big Puffin coffee mug |
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Sunrise over pressure ridge |
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Beautiful but cold morning |
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Approaching Seboomook, with its many camps |
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Looking back down Moosehead |
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"Seboomook Cottage" |
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Camping shelters at Seboomook campground |
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Trailers everywhere at Seboomook village |
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Carry Stream |
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Onto Seboomook Lake |
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Predawn at "Seboomook Woods" Camp, 1/19-20 |
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Pulling toboggan out of woods from campsite |
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Shoreline at "SEboomook Woods" Camp |
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Roger trudging into wind along shore of Seboomook |
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On the homestretch through new snow on Seboomook |
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Exposed pier of log boom |
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Log boom pylon on Lake Seboomook |
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Weather cleared a little during middle of day |
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Tom Jamrog bundled up against wind |
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Approaching Pittston Farm (in distance) |
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Roger with Pittston Farm in distance |