Another spring and another opportunity to hike Bald Peak Trail up Pleasant Mountain. Compare it to last year here. This post opens with a photo of the same waterfall as last year's post. This year we didn't make it to the top, just diverted to go part-way up Sue's Way. All the run-off this year made for a lot of photo opportunities which slowed us down.

Just before we left, one of our party showed me photos from Leigh Hayes' blog where she had gone up this trail before us. She is a writer (amongst other things) that I have worked with for Lake Living Magazine.

This was probably the best waterflow I have seen at the Needle's Eye.

It was a bit tricky getting into there with the snow and ice on the outside.

A view of the ski slopes through the trees.

There is still plenty of snow around, so yesterday (4/10) we made sure to get out one final time for the season. We skied around the perimeter of the Highland Golf Course in Bridgton on the greens and in the woods.

The temperature on the watch reads over 80ºF. The air temperature was probably more like in the 70's.

The snow is disapearring fast though.

Our first April storm on April 1. We received around 8" of fresh wet snow.

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The Narrows Bridge, Kezar Lake, Lovell

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Kezar Lake

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Signs of spring -- red-winged blackbirds were calling in the marsh behind these pussywillows.