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Sunday the 14th, May 2000. Waiting for godot. Or, in this case, the car from Riverside Apartments. left to right: Sivapriya, Purvi, Jyoti, Manish, Arindam, Ashish, Snigdha, Rajeev, Pia (hidden), Johan, Shashank, Satish.
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The Douglas Trail. Seems like we were saving more than our sanity - we were saving a pond as well!
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When you are lost and confused, pose for a picture. It's a snap, really! People waving the map like a flag are obviously not in the mood of finding out the trail.
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All energy, all excited. Right after we started on the Douglas trail. Soon, a major fraction of the energy would disappear as we would get lost, climb up gazillions of miles, and skid on every other step.
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Rajeev taking the lead towards the Sunfish Pond.
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Now this is just a pretty picture. Trees all around, and then some. Wish there were some black panthers up on these trees.
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The trailing end of the trailers meeting the rest at the first rest point.
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Boy, finally, a halt! I discovered that my breath is half as slow as I am when it comes to climbing up natural inclines in totally natural surroundings. We (my breath and I) travel at the same speed on mechanical vertical transportation machines, though.
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Yeaaah! Destination at last! The board says there's a pond up here, just like the brochures did. Is there, really?
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Which way now, huh? This? or that? When you say 'that', do you mean this? Or that?
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The most welcome sight after the 90 minute trek uphill. Until we took the corner, we could not believe that a place this high up can have a clearing this big - and a lake at that, too!
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Shashank pondering - do I jump? Do I? What about these ugly fish? Do they bite? Oh look - ugly slimy poisonous snakes moving in hoardes. Better leave the swimming to them and dig into the food hamper!
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Same lake, higher altitude. This is as high as the land goes in this place .. and allows a view of the lake.
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A different view of the lake and it's surrooundings from the same perch.
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The new thing after skeletons in the closet - skeletons in the open air!
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Eeeeeeeeeeoouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
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We discovered this stonehedge quite by accident - remains of a group of imaginative picnickers. Really spooky, specially as the dark seeps into the day.
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Tiny little fish snake eating tiny little fish. The fish is about 2 inches long, the snake less than an inch wide.
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Look what we found up in the Sunfish Pond! A Dalmatian, of all friends!
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The rest are some closeups of a few members of the group - just for the heck of it. Here's Ashish Desai.
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Johan Steensland, our leader.
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Manish Mahajan making a pretty face.
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Shashank Sathyanarayana looking all hassled.
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Purvi trying to take a nap.
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Ashish Giani at the lake.
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