buckyball1
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A late start today as I had to wait for an LP gas tank to be delivered/hooked up. Out the door around 10 
to sunny, cool, windy weather-lots of Columbus weekend traffic and leaf peepers?
This weekend's quarry are mostly low hanging fruit on the ME "P" list between #200-300, but do have prominence of around 700 feet +/-.
St Albans-1090'. The "hill" is a bit north of the small hamlet of St Albans and due south of Dover Foxcroft. There are several possible approaches, but i chose one from Bryant Rd which runs west from Rt 23/152 a few miles north of St Albans Village.
The hike was relatively short, EZ and a quick workout-able to follow old roads almost all the way to the "peak". There's an active hunting camp where i parked (iffy, but nary a no trespassing sign) and an old road leads from there. Near the top there's a building and a pole with what looks like a small communications repeater? on it-perhaps for local fire/police use. By the general nature of "P" peaks a lot of them in somewhat populated areas are home to towers/antenna, small and large. The very top (nondescript and wooded) featured a small hunting blind.
then i was off to the Bingham area where i crossed the Kennebec on Rt 16, turned north on Ridge Rd and finally followed a logging road (hills on it not the greatest surface) i saw on the sat pics to park under now leaden skies (excellent views north toward Sugarloaf, etc) at a log yard near
Fletcher -1709' (a veritable giant ). I was able to ascend about 1/2 way on old overgrown skid paths whose brambles cut me up quite a bit (shorts) and then made my way through thick, annoying, "jail bar" small hardwood growth to the summit (no really any problem). The summit is flattish, but obvious and wooded. Descent was no problem, but increasing wind and rain from the passing front made the day raw and now hid any trace of Sugarloaf
fairly short day, but again a good one--feeling OK re this stuff again
jim
to sunny, cool, windy weather-lots of Columbus weekend traffic and leaf peepers?This weekend's quarry are mostly low hanging fruit on the ME "P" list between #200-300, but do have prominence of around 700 feet +/-.
St Albans-1090'. The "hill" is a bit north of the small hamlet of St Albans and due south of Dover Foxcroft. There are several possible approaches, but i chose one from Bryant Rd which runs west from Rt 23/152 a few miles north of St Albans Village.
The hike was relatively short, EZ and a quick workout-able to follow old roads almost all the way to the "peak". There's an active hunting camp where i parked (iffy, but nary a no trespassing sign) and an old road leads from there. Near the top there's a building and a pole with what looks like a small communications repeater? on it-perhaps for local fire/police use. By the general nature of "P" peaks a lot of them in somewhat populated areas are home to towers/antenna, small and large. The very top (nondescript and wooded) featured a small hunting blind.
then i was off to the Bingham area where i crossed the Kennebec on Rt 16, turned north on Ridge Rd and finally followed a logging road (hills on it not the greatest surface) i saw on the sat pics to park under now leaden skies (excellent views north toward Sugarloaf, etc) at a log yard near
Fletcher -1709' (a veritable giant
). I was able to ascend about 1/2 way on old overgrown skid paths whose brambles cut me up quite a bit (shorts) and then made my way through thick, annoying, "jail bar" small hardwood growth to the summit (no really any problem). The summit is flattish, but obvious and wooded. Descent was no problem, but increasing wind and rain from the passing front made the day raw and now hid any trace of Sugarloaffairly short day, but again a good one--feeling OK re this stuff again
jim
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