Mt Moriah via a little used trail - The AT

[J&J]

At least it's little used by most White Mountain peakbaggers. Hiked it on Friday 8-12-05. A warm day but dry and sunny. Went up the Rattle River trail, hooked onto the Kenduskeag trail to the summit of Moriah. Saw four people as I was on my way up- all thru-hikers heading to Maine and the end of the trail! Shadow, from near Greenville, Maine so he's heading home. Jersey Fresh from New Jersey and two other younger guys from Maine and New Hampshire, never got their trail names. There was also a little bit of trail magic about .2 in on the trail. Someone has left a cooler full of drinks and puddings for the thru-hikers as they pass by. I imagine most thru-hikers at this point probably head into Gorham for a day or two.

What I wanted to mention about this hike was the preponderance of bog bridges. Since I was hiking solo this day and the first time on these trails, I counted them on my way out. On the Kenduskeag trail to the Rattle River junction there were 180 bog bridges. There were 27 on the RR trail for a grand total of 207 bog bridges! These bridges are 8' long and there are two of them for each section. One section only had one bridge.

I can't think of anywhere else where I've seen so many bog bridges in such a short length of trail. That's 3,304' of boards! That's a little over .6 of a mile of wood.

Does anyone know where there might be more bog bridges than this in a 1.4 mile stretch?

A handful of photographs here: www.jj1.smugmug.com

 

[poison ivy]

Wow... I remember there bring bog bridges along that section of the AT, but I didn't remember there being that many! Another section of the AT with extensive bog bridging is on the Goose Eye peaks in Maine. At times, it felt like walking on a boardwalk.

- Ivy

 

[MichaelJ]

Wow... I remember there bring bog bridges along that section of the AT, but I didn't remember there being that many!

I do.