Guess what? We’re back at it. Not some crazy 5 month adventure this time, but we’re heading back into the northern woods for a little re-union hike. After 3 years it is about time and my brother and I are both excited to hit the trail for a little stint. This time we are bringing our lady friends with us to live it up!
The plan is to hike a couple days in the 100 mile wilderness and then hike Katahdin, our final climb on the AT, at least once or twice. The packs are nearly packed and the plans are pretty much planned. Here is what we are looking to do and since I know we all like picture books I made it as graphic as possible.
This Friday we will fly from St. Pete to Bangor, Maine:
Then we are going to drive from Bangor to Monson, Maine:
When we get into Monson, Maine on Friday night we are staying at the fine establishment called Shaws.
In the morning you order your breakfast by saying a number like 1,2,3,4,5. This is the number of everything that you want and equates to something like this:
I don’t know her, but we’ll call her Sheryl. Sheryl’s face seemed appropriate and therefore she made the post.
After we force all of that into our bellies we will grab a shuttle into the 100 mile wilderness. I’d imagine the shuttle will look something like this (we can only hope):
The shuttle is going to take us from Monson to Katahdin Iron Works rd, which is in the middle of nowhere and subsequently exactly where we want to go:
When we get Monsoned, no pun intended and you probably won’t get it unless you have seen Kingpin, in the middle of the 100 mile wilderness we will start our hike back to… well, Monson. The first night we are going to hike 12 miles to the Cloud Pond Lean-to.
The next day we will be hiking over the barren ledges.
That is my brother Derek from the last time we hiked over the barren ledges. Maybe this time he won’t be so curious, but that is why we call him whiskers anyways since he is curious like a cat. Once we conquer barren mountain the plan is to hike another 13 miles to the Little Wilson Falls where we are going to spend our second night on the trail.
When we wake up on Monday we will hike the 7 miles back to Monson where we will hop in our car and drive up to Baxter State Park for the next two days.
The plan is to stop at a grocery store to re-supply for the next couple days as well as get some of this for the thru-hikers that we may run into:
And This:
And of course plenty of this:
We are spending the first night at the Katahdin Stream campground in one of their fancy lean-to things. It’s actually just a normal lean-to, but I’m sure it will have plenty of mice like the rest of them. On Tuesday we will hike Katahdin up the Hunt trail and will hopefully get a clearer day than last time. Here is a pic from our thru-hike:
If it is still cloudy, which it usually is, we will have plenty of this for us and the thru-hikers:
After we hike back down the hunt trail we will drive from Katahdin Stream Campground to the Roaring Brook Campground, which is still in Baxter State Park. We are camping there at a tent site on Tuesday night before flying out Wednesday night. On Wednesday the plan is to get up early and hike up Katahdin again from the other side if we have enough time. Otherwise, we may just hike up to Chimney Pond and back. After hiking we will drive back to Bangor and fly to Detroit rock city where Char and I will be driving up to our family cabin for a little shindig. Derek and Liz will continue on to the Cape to hang with the hoity toities. Here is our last flight for good measure:
Well, that is the plan and if you would like to follow along I will be blogging on the hike. I have been growing out my beard just to make sure I fit in with the rest of the mountain men. I suppose I should end this like I always do.
Loving Life
Northbound By Foot 
Can’t wait to hear about it at K.P. Are u engaging a pack animal to haul all of the beverage supplies? Hugs