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After a weekend of rain I was certainly chomping at the bit to get out and yesterday was the perfect weather day to do so. Beaver Mountain The approach was easy from Cross Town Road off Rt. 17. (Large Bull Moose sighting on 17 just South of turnoff) The newest Delorme shows a bridge out on the...

Looks like I'll be a little further South and West on Saturday but congratulations anyway. Big Squaw was probably the first 3K I did that was not on the AT. This was back in October 1995. I wonder if the remains of the wardens cabin are still there. Again congratulations and well done! Jim

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the AT goes over this. I did this section in '98 and I remember trying to listen for the muffled sound of trucks on the highway underneath. It was a pretty stretch of trail with nice views to the North. Just after this the AT goes down to Lehigh...

Glad to hear my decision to sit out yesterday was the right one. Its pretty bad when you have already decided not to go and you get up, go look at the weather radar and say "it had better be raining up north". Sorry. Thanks for the info on Alder Stream Road. I always wondered how far in it went...

No problem, Maine has a split Moose season. The first week starting tomorrow is in the Northern Zones only. This is above Moosehead Lake and Baxter. The Second week Oct 9-14 includes the Jackman-Rangeley-Bethel areas as well as the Northern zones again. And as always Sundays are No Hunting days.

Congrats, great pics of North & South Turner. Glad to hear that the rangers are cooperative about N.Turner. Hope to see you in Pittsburg in a couple weeks. Jim

Although I have not been on CVR this year. from everything I've heard this is a much better approach. From 142 take the East Madrid Road. Big sign for Hot Mix Plant at the turn off. Follow this road about 3 miles or so from pavement to dirt back to pavement and finally to dirt. After the 3 miles...

The No Trespassing sign is on the same tree on top of Middle Red. where the jar is located. However, some Endless Energy people signed their names in the register and they said that they "owned the mountain". Not sure if the summit is part of the wind farm area. There is a wind monitoring tower...

No, I have been back there twice now and no signs of the mysterious backpacker. Maybe he finally got a ride into Phillips.

My last trip into the Barnjum Valley. Sigh! If all the logging roads were this good it would be too easy. I followed Barnjum Road .9 Miles past the Farmer-Abraham Road and parked on the left were a woods road forks off. Left the car by 9AM. I followed the woods road for about 1.5 miles or so...

After waiting out Saturday's storms at home I headed out Sunday morning with a promising forecast and was not disappointed. I headed West on the Spencer Road from Rt. 201 and just after the 17 mile marker I turned right on a smaller logging road and followed it around to below the col of the two...

No, more likely the Wind farm people would close access if their project was approved. A lot of SERE people had signed in the jars and there was a pretty good looking trail headed south from SW Nubble. There doesn't seem to be a fence around navy property. I'm not sure if there are any no...

For the first time in 6 weeks Sadie joined me. I figured these two were dog friendly and they were. I followed Kurt and Mark's directions from 3 weeks ago although I'm sure I went some places that they didn't. The logging road in was in decent shape. The parking place is exactly 7 Miles in from...

Papa Bear's report and pictures on these peaks were excellent so I won't bore everyone with too much detail. I will say that I found both jars, Barker at 10:15 AM and Twin Peaks at 1:10 PM. My route to Twin Peaks was a little different. Thanks to Kurt (Onestep) for his directions. I left the...

Very excellent trip report and pictures. My report on Barker and Twin Peaks, which I haven't written yet, will not be nearly as detailed and with no pictures to boot. I am so looking forward to my first trip to Pittsburg which probably won't happen till next year. Slow, stupid moose watchers...

On Boundary there is a short path behind the cairn to a partial viewpoint looking into Maine. You might consider hanging the jar on one of the trees in there away from the swath. Any hiker doing one of the "US" lists will no doubt look for it in there as I did when I was there. Gamehiker

Thanks to dms and Jim C for showing the way to Middle Abe. I was able to drive almost to the col. 45 Mins. after leaving my car I was on top. The hardest part of the "whack" were the raspberries in the "clear cut". Otherwise you can't call that a whack. Back to the car by 10:10 AM I was able to...

If you drive in from the West there is a gate at the navy base - you will be stopped. Better to try from the south, Orbeton Stream. But you will still be on navy property. However, a friend of a friend in the navy tells me that if you go on a weekend you probably will not run in to anyone. There...

I'm interested.

PB, when traveling south on Rt. 3 just before 2nd Conn. Lake take a left on the East Inlet Road and report back on the road condition, please. Just kidding! I have to go up there and check it out at some point because after a lot of map studying that looks like the best approach to Maine 3K...