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Papa Bear
09-16-2004, 21:15
100 Mile Wilderness and Baxter State Park climbing: August 30 to September 14

I just got back from one of the best hiking and climbing treks in recent memory.

I hiked much of the 100 Mile Wilderness with Rambler (we were cut off from one section due to very high stream levels) culminating with the summiting of Katahdin on September 7th, in some of most beautiful above-tree-line weather possible. And to put frosting on the cake, we descended that day via the Knife Edge and hitched back to where our car was spotted.

Then we spent the next 6 days hiking and climbing in Baxter State Park. Funky Freddie and Josef joined us on September 10th and we then spent 2 days at Nesowadnehunk Campground and 2 days at Chimney Pond. In the process, I added 2 to my NE 4ks (North Brother and Hamlin), 3 more to my NE 100s (South Brother, Coe and Fort) and 2 to my NE Fifty Finest (White Cap and Doubletop) as well as a valiant but unsuccessful attempt with Spencer on The Traveler in rain and high winds (what were we thinking?). I have now finished the Maine 4ks and 100s. Hooray!

I have put almost 400 pictures on line, divided into 3 albums:

100 Mile Wilderness pictures (http://gallery.backcountry.net/papabear_2004_100MW)

Katahdin pictures (http://gallery.backcountry.net/papabear_2004_Katahdin)

Baxter pictures (http://gallery.backcountry.net/papabear_2004_Baxter)

I will work on the captions and I will similarly break up my more detailed trip reports into like sections.

It was a great trip, but it's great to be back.

More to follow ...

Pb