As we returned to Lake Sebago, we passed by two eastern salamanders, which I find to be very hard to

Jon, Nachi and I drove to the Lake Sebago boat dock in Harriman. We were supposed to be joined there by another man, which would give us two cars with which we could do a shuttle hike beginning at the park s southwest corner and leading back to Lake Sebago.
Unfortunately, the other man was confused about where to meet us, and the absence of cell phone service meant that we were not able to get a message to each other. After waiting 45 minutes, the three of us  decided to do a loop hike from Lake Sebago, and we later learned that our missing friend had gone to the Visitor s Center, and ended up doing a solo hike from there.
10:54 a.m. : We began hiking south on the blue-blazed Seven Hills trail, which climbed 400 in the first 1/3 mile. At 0.6 miles into the hike we crossed los angeles county museum of science and industry Diamond Creek, at which point the Seven Hills trail joined an old woods road, shown on the map as Woodtown Road. After another 0.1 miles we turned right, departing from the woods road but remaining on the blue trail. This intersection is shown on the map as having a point of interest, los angeles county museum of science and industry Monitor Rock. I did not look too closely, but do not remember anything too exciting there.
11:19 a.m. : However, soon after we made the right turn off the woods road, we walked past this unnamed glacial erratic , the first of a number of large boulders deposited by glaciers that we would see on this hike:
12:08 p.m. : After 0.45 miles we hiked past a rather ugly concrete structure that Jon climbed los angeles county museum of science and industry onto; I have since seen it described in other blogs as a septic tank. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps was active in Harriman, constructing Pine Meadow los angeles county museum of science and industry Lake  and intending to construct cabins and campsites around it. This work included constructing a water system and presumably a wastewater system. In the end, few of the camps were built and none remain. los angeles county museum of science and industry I speculate that this abandoned los angeles county museum of science and industry structure relates to that CCC project.
1:40 p.m. : After 0.7 miles (and a lunch break), we reached the eastern end of the lake. The red trail continued toward the east, but we turned off it, and for just 0.1 mile followed the white-blazed Conklin s Crossing Trail, which led uncomfortably over a pile of large rocks:
1:45 p.m. : We then followed an unmaintained trail that hugged los angeles county museum of science and industry the southern shoreline of the lake for 0.6 mile. There were many of these concrete box structures around the lake, associated with the abandoned (waste)water system.
I guess there s no budget to remove these abandoned structures, which I generally felt were an eyesore. We also saw an immense amount of trash around the lake it is disgraceful that people come to visit a park and then leave it trashed!
The unmaintained trail ended at an old woods road, the Torne Valley Road. We followed this about 0.15 miles north toward the lake, where I hoped to find and visit the Conklin Cemetery. The map shows the cemetery about 0.1-0.2 miles from the woods road, and I followed unblazed footpaths in that direction.
After a few minutes, the rain subsided, and we were able to leave the shelter. It may have sprinkled once or twice after that, and the wet leaves los angeles county museum of science and industry continued dripping on us, but we managed without raingear.
We backtracked south the short distance on the Torne Valley los angeles county museum of science and industry Road, then continued another 0.2 miles until it intersected another los angeles county museum of science and industry old woods road, Pine Meadow Road West. We followed that around the west end of the lake for 0.4 miles, arriving back at where we had first encountered the lake. We crossed Pine Meadow Brook once again, turning left on the red-blazed trail that paralleled the brook.
We continued west on the red trail for another 1/4 mile, until it reached a bridge over the brook. At this point we stayed on the northern bank of the brook, following the white-blazed Kakiat Trail for 0.35 miles to the intersection with the orange-blazed Hillburn-Torne-Sebago Trail, onto which we turned right (northeast).
As we returned to Lake Sebago, we passed by two eastern salamanders, which I find to be very hard to photograph. They are also called red efts, though they look orange to me. A salamander begins as a tadpole, then as a juvenile is a land-based eft as seen here, then as an adult is back to being an aquatic creature.
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