Maine in June (Appalachian Trail)

Fellow hiker/hopper. Not too much wildlife but we did see a few moose, frogs/toads, snakes and AT through hikers. The latter species is identifiable by five month old beards, impossible stories and wild eyes that can only be from hiking 2200 miles through the bush alone.

Pitcher plant flower (Sarracenia purpurea). This is a carnivorous bog plant with leaves that can drown insects. Enzymes, bacteria, rotifers, protists and others do the breakdown/digestion and the plant then uses the nitrogen and phosporous which is released. We saw this guy in a couple of the bogs in Maine.

The bugs were amazing. Steph's face gotten bitten up by black flies so that she couldn't see out of one eye.

Some fellow AT hikers trying out my slings on top of Whitecap Mtn. Nobody was injured.

Colleen and I had a bet/challenge that I couldn't catch a fish with my leg hair (she was thinking that the leg hair was for the line and not the body of the fly). I knotted up some hair and tied on some birch bark wings. Landed a brook trout and more importantly the bet.

This is us in our pre Appalachian Trail happiness. No fly bites yet...
Steph and Colleen on top of Katahdin Mtn (5300 ft). Tricky little climb in the rain. I learned that ponchos (even nice ones) are not great for steep scrambling.
Peak of Katahdin.

Some unidentified polypores. Any suggestions?
Black fly and mosquitoe wounds on the arm of a fellow hiker. This style of injury was pretty normal on the AT hikers. Maine in June- highly unrecommended. Jack-in-the-pulpit (local plant).
Toothbrush-in-the-Colleen (a trail species).