Majestic Maine Mountains

heinäkuuta 2023

As a preparation for hopefully upcoming Tour du Mont Blanc (about a year from now) we are dedicating our vacations to some training doing hikes in the mountain areas. Lue lisää

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Seuraa Kalenteri Jaa Toivelista

Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 8.7.2023 klo 10.47
- ☁️ 75 °F
- Korkeus: 105 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Town of Kennebunk Bartlett Mills Punky Swamp 43.411667, -70.55833343°24’42” N 70°33’30” W
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1st stop
8. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
This was our 1st stop after we left the house and made a fast pit-stop at Wawa's.
Took us about 4.5 hours and we are roughly 9-10 miles into the State of Maine and we are about 1/2 way to our destinationLue lisää
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 8.7.2023 klo 14.57
- ⛅ 82 °F
- Korkeus: 748 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Town of Island Falls Walker Settlement 46.028333, -68.2146°1’42” N 68°12’36” W
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VacationLand Estates
8. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
So this is our hangout for this upcoming week. We are on the outskirts of Island Falls (pop. All of 600) 😁
Surprisingly, I made it here in 8hrs 40mins incl. the break
Interesting setup with these cabin-style buildings
Surrounded by beautiful. Maine nature, can't wait to exploreLue lisää
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 8.7.2023 klo 15.01
- ⛅ 82 °F
- Korkeus: 748 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Town of Island Falls Walker Settlement 46.028333, -68.2146°1’42” N 68°12’36” W
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Cabin 61
8. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
And that is our "cabin". Very clean, plenty of space even has a loft
Huge communal deck in the back overlooking golf course geen.
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Pretty decent digs! [Jeanine]
8.7.2023VastaaKääntää
Matkaaja Nice cabin! Looks very comfortable. The deck view is beautiful!
9.7.2023VastaaKääntää
Matkaaja Nice cabin!
11.7.2023VastaaKääntää
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 8.7.2023 klo 19.51
- ⛅ 75 °F
- Korkeus: 748 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Town of Island Falls Walker Settlement 46.028333, -68.2146°1’42” N 68°12’36” W
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End of the day
8. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
..and do after getting ourselves situated, going to the local grocery store, which is absolutely a Typical County Store, getting provisions and grabbing fast dinner, we are retiring for the night leaving you with gorgeous mountain sunset
P.S. this also gave me a chance to test out my birthday present from Barry and Jo, namely a card reader, and I am happy to say that it works.
These sunset photos are taken with my 35mm camera and I don't have to wait until I get home to post them anymore 😁Lue lisää
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Beautiful sunset. Wish I was there. [Jeanine]
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Matkaaja Drive up. There is an extra bedroom 😄
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Matkaaja Beautiful! Glad you are testing your new "toy". 😊
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Matkaaja Thanks
9.7.2023VastaaKääntää
Matkaaja These are beautiful photos!!!
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 9.7.2023 klo 8.14
- ☁️ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 558 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Island Falls Robinson Mountain 46.025, -68.2446°1’30” N 68°14’24” W
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Robinson Mountain
9. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Robinson Mountain is a peak not far from our cabin in and has an elevation of 1,020 feet. Robinson Mountain is named after Maj. George Robinson, a former resident in Island Falls. Robinson served with 8th ME VI and perhaps best remembered for interfering with Lewis Paine (Powell) - co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth - during the latter's attempt at assassinating Secretary of State William Steward on April 14, 1865. (Robinson was a Sgt. then)
In any case, a new trail was just opened, and we decided to take advantage ...

Parking area and small commemorative rock overlooking Upper Mattawamkeag Lake.

BTW, Robinson Mountain is the one straight ahead from our patio on last night's sunset photosLue lisää
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 9.7.2023 klo 8.30
- ☁️ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 548 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Island Falls Robinson Mountain 46.02, -68.24333346°1’12” N 68°14’36” W
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Trail
9. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
So the trailhead proved to be somewhat elusive, but in the end, we found a service road that eventually got us on it.
The ATVs use the trail as well, so there are plenty of mud spots...
Of course, we got eaten alive by the army of mosquitoes (later on that 🙄).
Meanwhile, some views while on the trail incl. a beautiful flower and a multicolored field of them.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja The views are wonderful!!
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 9.7.2023 klo 9.57
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Korkeus: 1 004 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Island Falls Robinson Mountain 46.026667, -68.25166746°1’36” N 68°15’6” W
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The summit
9. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
We made it to the summit and marveled at views again.
We spent some time on this little opening, had some lunch, and rested. Mosquitoes were still relentless, though...
So we traversed the other side of the trail loop, which wound up taking us down to what most likely IS that elusive trailhead, and we got to our car after perhaps. 5 mile 😊
Slightly less than 5 miles total(trail proper), it was a good short start (hopefully we'll do better in upcoming days if the weather behaves)

These shots include Pastor Mandy's Serene Video of the day (seems they exist outside The Camino... who knew...😇) and views of Majestic Katahdin Mountain - the tallest mountain of The State of Maine and the Northern Terminus of AT.

Needless to say we rode into town, hit the County Store ang got mosquitoes repellent 👍Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Are they bigger than NJ mosquitoes? 😳 Happy Birthday! Views are beautiful.
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Matkaaja No they are not but I believe they are more...bloodthirsty 🙄
9.7.2023VastaaKääntää
Matkaaja Beautiful!
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 9.7.2023 klo 19.09
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Korkeus: 748 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Town of Island Falls Walker Settlement 46.028333, -68.2146°1’42” N 68°12’36” W
Päivä 2
Cheese and Wine
9. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
..so this was a major bummer.
As many of you know, today is Laurie's birthday, and I was all set to take her out to a nice dinner.
I forgot where we are!!!
Not only does one have to go completely crazy to even remotely find anything "nice" by our standards (remember- pop. 600, right, so 2 restaurants and nice is still the same as regular, namely burgers and pizza...else you have to drive somewhere fir 2 hours)...but since it's Sunday, they close by 5 pm!!!! 😡
Yup!
So.... we contented with one of our "in"-dinners and joined other vacationers for complimentary cheese and wine event in the evening 😀
I end this day with a shot of communal deck resplendent in swimwear and a partial view of Mt. Chase, which is to the right of Robinson Mountain, and also is seen from said deck.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Sorry about your dinner plans. ☹️ But wine and cheese is good! 😃 Beautiful sunset.
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Matkaaja Yes, we've learned to live with "what it is". We probably will try for that dinner tomorrow night
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Matkaaja Making the best of what is possible always seems to be a good idea to me.
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Matkaaja 👍
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 10.7.2023 klo 8.57
- ☁️ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 699 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Penobscot County Shin Falls 46.141667, -68.61546°8’30” N 68°36’54” W
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Shin Falls
10. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Today we squeezed in 2 relatively sort hikes.
The partial problem is that, although there are abundance of places, it takes forever to get to them. This one, Shin Falls, was about 35 minutes drive - one of the shorter ones.
Also called Shin Brooks Falls, they consist of Upper and Lower FallsLue lisää
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Matkaaja Laurie looks like she is having fun -- Allan, maybe not so much
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Matkaaja Was bit too humid for me...plus I was still struggling with selfies
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Matkaaja Majestic Maine Mountains
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 10.7.2023 klo 9.21
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Korkeus: 689 ft
- Yhdysvallat Maine Penobscot County Shin Falls 46.138333, -68.61333346°8’18” N 68°36’48” W
Päivä 3
Maybe... and a little later
10. heinäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
The trail unfortunately turned out not well marked at all. We completely missed the turn, therefore never making it to the loop and the Lower Falls.
Perhaps it was for the best - many reviews mention that descending is somewhat treacherous even as the trail rated as Easy/Moderate.
We mainly are focusing on getting back in shape and for Laurie to get used to walk with a 20L backpack.
...so we came to the end of the path we were on and hit these little rapids.
Moving a little bit to the right, we could see the plunge of the falls... but that was it 😒
Nature is still beautiful, though 😍

When we made it back to the car, we also walked the service road, pretty much flat and open canopy. The mosquitoes were very happy to see us. Even as we liberally sprayed ourselves with repellant, they never completely left us (but the assault was not as brutal as yesterday).
IMHO, these suckers (pun intended) are fully u-t-d on their vaccines and are not afraid of the repellent 😁🥲Lue lisää
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Matkaaja It seems serene to me :) And Laurie looks so beautiful!!
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