Travel Blogs from Millinocket, United States
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Baxter Wilderness Preserve
The peak night of the Perseids Meteor Shower finds us deep in the dark wilderness of Baxter Park. Our first campsite in Baxter Wilderness Preserve will be under the darkness of a New Moon. Ideal conditions to view the peak night of the ...
White Water Rafting
Monday morning we meet our rafting guide for our training in whitewater paddling. Our guide will teach us how to direct our raft toward the best bumps and splashes as we maneuver through the rapids. There is not much to learn. The skills are really quite ...
Day 127: Carl Newhall to Cooper Brook
Hey all Another drizzly and at times, downright rainy day on the AT in Maine. It would really stink to live in this state and have summer weather like this!! However not all bad! The day started beautifully, blue skies and crisp morning temps. ...
Day 128: Cooper Brook to Wadleigh Stream
Hi hi! So after going to bed to the rain coming down on the shelter roof, it was very lovely to wake up at dawn to some blue skies. 2000 miles and still the weather determines so much about our moods. The first few miles were beautiful, smooth and ...
Day 129: Wadleigh Stream to Millinocket, ME
... . Absolutely spectacular view of Katahdin with a river in the foreground. Some nice passersby took my photo... Got a lift into Millinocket with Cool Tool and his friend Freddie Rat. It's odd because everyone here is either starting or finishing, yet ...
Day 130: Millinocket, ME to Katahdin Stream
Good evening AT diary, Well it has been a long fantastic journey. Those of you that have been bearing witness know that it was also painful, rainy, difficult, dangerous, funny, and long. Tonight I am camped out at the base of katahdin, with only a 5.2 mi ...
Day 131: Katahdin Stream to Katahdin
... ) I am at Roaring Brook campsite on the other side of the mountain. I approach some people and manage to comandeer a ride to Millinocket (20 mi) with mom-daughter hiking pair from Maine. Weird to be in the car with strangers for so long especially when ...
Second Movement
We survived the night. We are now 50% of the hotel's population. Great news we survived our first real hike at on the AT in Baxter Park. That's the good news the bad news is Dooz was not allowed to step foot (paw) in the park. So ...
Aug 18, 2009
Pre-Katahdin
After landing in Maine on Monday June 25th, I was picked up by a guide named Phil Pepin. He drove an Asheville thru hiking couple and I a couple hours into rural Maine, where we stayed at his cabin for the night. The large 2-story cabin was built with ...
We made it...
We are all alive... 1494.1 miles. Dooz has found creative ways to find comfort in back of the jeep. I will load some photos once I find that darn adaptor. Our last update was from Kennebunkport MA. Yep was saw the summer home of ...
DAY 4: Summitted a Mountain
DAY 4: Summitted a Mountain This morning we were up at 5am for a quick breakfast and our hike up the mountain. The ranger told Matt that we should set aside 12 hours for the 10 mile hike up and down the mountain. We registered on the ...
2nd attempt.
2 days on the trail, blisters galore on my feet, pack weighs ways too much. Never been in so much pain. But apparently the worst is over, going back on the trail on ...
Millinocket, ME
... and Campground. Great name for Moose hunters like ourselves so we headed back there. It was a nice campground, right on Lake Millinocket. The campground was definitely planned out more for Tent camping, but they put us in 1 of their 5 RV ...
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