Acadia National Park

Between seeing Dana and Charlie in Portland and Andrea (Meg's university roommate) in Lebanon (New Hampshire) we had a few days. Charlie had spent a few summers teaching sailing at Acadia National Park in Maine and had some good suggestions on activities to do in the park so we headed up there.

The park had kind of a interesting history with most of the land in the park being donated by private donors early in the 20th century (rather than being set aside public land). One of the neat features of the park are a series of carriage roads throughout the park (50 miles in all) set up by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in order drive his carriage around, away from motorized traffic. It is now an excellent series of paths for biking and Meg and I spent one of our days cycling the paths as well as cycling to the tallest point along the north Atlantic Seaboard, Cadillac Mountain.

Meg looking for me on the trail... she won't find me though. I am behind her.

We also spent one day doing a really fun little hike which Charlie suggested (that guy really came up gold for us). It was called the precipice hike and pretty much just had us hiking up the mountain in the steepest way possible, but it had rungs set up anywhere where any gear might be required. It is not suggested that you descend the hike so we made our way back to the car through a more circuitous route that unfortunately ended up with us climbing down a smaller cliff with rungs (I guess having a topo map would have paid off there). Since neither of us died, it was a really great day.

The "Meghan is Radical" Triptych

Following the Cairns

Meg and I before our descent to the sandy beach (in the background)