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Wednesday, August 19.
  Uncertain weather greeted us as we left the camp about 7:30.  Our spirits were high however as the camp had had one good feature-no matter how wet the firewood was outside, there was always a quantity of old boxes in the cabins which made excellent kindling wood and allowed us to have a hearty breakfast.
[Image Ausable River]
  A mile farther on we came to a lumber camp that occupied.  The men were all out in the forest, one woman alone remaining to direct us to the trail up Marcy.  This commences just to the left of the lumber camp.
  For a distance the trail is quite a good one, having been recentlybimproved by the lumbermen.  It follows the course of the Ausable River, this upper portion being often called Marcy Brook.
  We made our first stop at a cabin that had evidently been part of a lumber camp but which was in a much better state of preservation than the one at which we had
[Image Lumber Camp on Marcy Trail]
(Mt. McIntyre in distance)