her into the woods. I shrugged, put the camera away and gestured for Jerry to join me. When he got up to me and we were discussing the sighting - I wasn't sure of the sex of the second adult - just then I noticed a doe and a fawn about 100 yards off the road in the back yard of a camp watching us intently.  I reached for my camera but they ambled off into the woods. They did not raise tails and run so I guess they felt we were no threat. As mentioned elsewhere we also saw woodpeckers and a hawk attack on a duck.

Finally I have various notes on trail condition. The first leg of the trail was covered with last year's fallen leaves and gave the impression that it was little used. Also in this section there was a stretch of four or five miles with many rock Cairns, many more than practical to mark any trail difficulty. I have a photograph showing 10 or more in the streambed of Goldmine Creek where the trail crosses! We speculated why it might be this way and created our own myth to explain them. We postulated that there was an ancient civilization of "Rock People" and that these were monuments to their gods. When we came to the point on the trail where they ceased I said, "This must be the limit of the westward expansion of the Rock People." Jerry agreed. I've also complained elsewhere about the condition of the trail from Duck Hole to Moose Pond - it was the muckiest and rockiest section and the under story was so thick that the only way to see the trail was to look directly in front of your feet. At the end of this section my arms were scratched and the soles of my feet were bruised. I also mentioned earlier about our nearly tripling the nine tenths of a mile leading to Duck Hole. We had walked about 6 or 7 tenths of a mile along this section when Jerry and I simultaneously exclaimed "Red!" You see we had both seen a red trail marker and immediately assumed we were on the wrong trail. The trail here is wide - an old roadbed or horse trail. On other such sections we had noticed a dearth of trail markers so we weren't watching very closely as we walked this section. The red marker immediately caused concern. I searched forward and Jerry searched backward. Ten minutes later we met at the original red marker and both reported finding another red marker in our direction of search. We doubled back to the last trail junction and sign. Studying the map we decided that the blue Northville to Lake Placid trail ran along the same route as another red trail. We complained to each other about the proper method of marking such a trail. In our opinion on any trail with more than one color, any tree with a trail marker should have multiple markers, one for each color as appropriate. I also found out that my Lowa