And to finish up the posts that were supposed to have been written in August 2012...
The day after we went
biking through Acadia, we went hiking in Acadia. This was our first ever hike, so we tackled something "easy" - Cadillac Mountain. Mind you, I was four days out from a half-ironman distance race! This was turning out to be a super active vacation.
We parked our car at the welcome station and rode the bus to the foot of the Cadillac Mountain trail.
Today, we brought our Camelbacks and nutrition (Honey Stingers and a couple of bars). We REALLY should've brought lunch. Oops... More on that later.
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| Still in a good mood |
There were some pretty steep sections of this, but I think we handled it well. Jon whined a little about how it hurt and I just reminded him that I had raced Sunday, so if I could do it, he could too. Guess he got tired of hearing that because he stopped complaining. Every time we thought we were getting close to the top, we'd realize we weren't. It took us just about 2 hrs to do 2.1 miles (or so). Crazy! We did stop several times to take pictures and just admire the view.
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| Are we there yet?! |
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| A little steep! |
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| Headed up the rock stairs |
Once at the top, we went to the bathroom and looked for the actual summit. We also explored the Summit Loop. It was about this time that we realized 1) we needed to figure out our path back down - we could go the way we came or go down the other trail that leads to the summit and 2) that we really should've brought lunch with us. We ended up going down the same way we came since we didn't know if the bus would pick us up from the trail head on the south side. Turns out, it would've. Oh well!
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| The North Ridge map (the way we came & went) |
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| View from the Summit Loop |
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| On the Summit Loop |
Overall, we had a great hike and I can't wait to get back to Acadia to do another!
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