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Mount Marcy,
NY. 2007 Our Mount Marcy trip was a memorable one. We hiked in about 5 miles on a fairly level trail the first day and set base camp at the Colden Dam. We were completely self contained with bear barrels for our dehydrated food as well as water purification pumps. The following day we were up early, had breakfast on the lake, then started toward Marcy around 8:00. Stopping only to rehydrate, we arrived at our first real break point which was Lake Tear, aka: (Tear in the Clouds) around noon. That's when things got interesting. Half of our party headed toward Mount Marcy and four of us headed toward Gray Peak. About 100 feet from the summit of Gray we realized that we were on the wrong mountain. So, a little bushwhacking and about 40 minutes of backtracking we were back at Lake Tear. We made the decision that we came this far, we're going for it! We reached the summit of Mount Marcy around 2:45 and met up with the rest of our party. Lots of sun and beautiful scenery. We were on the top of the world! We made double time descending as we wanted to be off the trail before sunset. The entire party was back at base camp by around 5:30, just in time for a well earned dinner. The following morning was crisp as we broke camp. We headed back to our vehicles but only after enjoying a steaming lake side breakfast fit for kings.
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