MEB
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In November of 2003 Little Sister and I set out together to hike our first 4000 footer together on Waumbek. The following November we successfully completed the New Hampshire 4000-Footers on Moosilauke with our goal being met to have them all hiked within one year. The following week after finishing we decided to hike Waumbek again so that we would hike them all in one year….and so the madness begins.
Back in September of 2004 Little Sister came with Paul and myself on her first trip to Baxter State Park and so we begin peakbagging together again as we start working on another list. In 2005 we did a few backpacking trips with MichaelJ and Poison Ivy and got most of the Maine peaks. Little Sister is not much into bushwhacking so she passed on the trip that I had taken on the Crockers and Reddington. We also made another trip to Baxter that same year and hiked the Brothers and Coe.
Fast forward to January 2007. The Winter Gathering provided a perfect opportunity to tackle the Vermont peaks and so we did. Two weeks later we set out to hike the Crockers and Reddington….and then there was one.
So, yesterday morning we head out to Old Speck. It seemed fit to finish this list on a Maine peak seeing that we are both native Mainers. We met up with Action Cath just after 9 and made our way up the AT. Everyone says the AT has a magical feeling and today it did, well, at least for me it did. Maybe it was the shot blocks. The trail never went straight for more then a few steps…..twisting and turning as it makes it way up with a feeling of anticipation of what’s to come around each corner. There is nothing dull or boring about this section of trail….up and down and around and around. The spur trail to the summit was like a snow tunnel…the snow-laden limbs hung low creating archways along the way.
And then we were there. #67! Yippee! Hoping for a brief break in the weather we passed the time on the summit by feeding two hungry gray jays. What a day and what an adventure it has been. Thanks Sis for all the wonderful hikes we have taken together. Thanks also to everyone who we have met along the way and who have dared to hike with us two crazy Mainers.
Pictures to come……
-MEB
Back in September of 2004 Little Sister came with Paul and myself on her first trip to Baxter State Park and so we begin peakbagging together again as we start working on another list. In 2005 we did a few backpacking trips with MichaelJ and Poison Ivy and got most of the Maine peaks. Little Sister is not much into bushwhacking so she passed on the trip that I had taken on the Crockers and Reddington. We also made another trip to Baxter that same year and hiked the Brothers and Coe.
Fast forward to January 2007. The Winter Gathering provided a perfect opportunity to tackle the Vermont peaks and so we did. Two weeks later we set out to hike the Crockers and Reddington….and then there was one.
So, yesterday morning we head out to Old Speck. It seemed fit to finish this list on a Maine peak seeing that we are both native Mainers. We met up with Action Cath just after 9 and made our way up the AT. Everyone says the AT has a magical feeling and today it did, well, at least for me it did. Maybe it was the shot blocks. The trail never went straight for more then a few steps…..twisting and turning as it makes it way up with a feeling of anticipation of what’s to come around each corner. There is nothing dull or boring about this section of trail….up and down and around and around. The spur trail to the summit was like a snow tunnel…the snow-laden limbs hung low creating archways along the way.
And then we were there. #67! Yippee! Hoping for a brief break in the weather we passed the time on the summit by feeding two hungry gray jays. What a day and what an adventure it has been. Thanks Sis for all the wonderful hikes we have taken together. Thanks also to everyone who we have met along the way and who have dared to hike with us two crazy Mainers.
Pictures to come……
-MEB
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And thanks to action Cath for joining us on so many hikes....and for the pink m&ms.
