Still working on an article for Down East: The Magazine of Maine on AT hiking in the state. You all have helped me with what to bring on a previous forum. Now I'm wondering what your favorite places were in the Pine Tree State — and why. If you could pick the sections of the trail in Maine that you particularly liked and explain why, I'd be most obliged. Post here or send info to
[email protected]. Mention when you finished, how old you are, and where you're from. I'll make you famous.
Thanks for all your help.
MaineGuide
Down East
I've hiked all of Maine three or four times -- in places a dozen times. I find it impossible to pick a favorite section. All of Maine is great. Based on my walk north from Springer in 1993, there is no other state that remotely compares.
I guess my favorite is the Mahoosucs from the New Hamposhire border through the Baldpates, mostly because I played a small role in keeping them from being developed.
The Bigelows also qualify -- both by their sheer quality and by the role some think I played in their preservation.
The 100-mile-wilderness, however, ranks with the above for being wild, relatively easy, and least civilized, though there are frightening developments that could change all that.
Weary