A Walk on Maine’s Wild Side: 22 Days Section Hiking the Appalachian Trail
At 281.4 miles, Maine accounts for only 13 percent of the 2,178.3-mile Appalachian Trail. Statistics, however, are for maps. Ask anyone who has completed the entire trail and they’ll likely tell you Maine is the toughest state of the 14 trail states.
Stealth Camp Sites on the Maine Appalachian Trail
There are designated camp sites approximately every ten miles on the Maine Appalachian Trail with lean-tos and tenting spaces; however, some of the best places to camp are the unofficial “stealth” sites.
14 hiking lessons learned on the maine appalachian trail
This past summer I took my first foray into long hiking, spending 22 days logging the 282 miles of the Maine Appalachian Trail. By no means do I consider myself a trail expert from this one adventure, but I did learn a lot of things I wished I’d known in advance. Hopefully this article will help other trail rookies avoid some of the mistakes I made.
Maine Appalachian Trail Hike Day 22: Katahdin
For starters, it’s Katahdin. Not Mount Katahdin. Not Katahdin Mountain. Just plain Katahdin. The Native Americans used to call it “Kette-Adene,” which meant the “greatest mountain.” They were on to…
Maine Appalachian Trail Hike Days 20 & 21: The Final Countdown
We woke up the morning of day 19 to another rain storm, which helped us get off to our slowest start yet. With only 14 miles on the docket we…
Maine Appalachian Trail Hike Days 18 & 19: What’s that Smell?
Every now and then I get a whiff of something wretched, and then I realize: it’s me. Speaking of smells, there were a couple of times today when I could…