Hiked the same trail every week for a full year e views…
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Hiked the same trail every week for a full year
e views from the top look out over the Bowl Pond and the Atlantic and I watched that same view go from frozen and grey in January to green in June to orange in October I guess. The crowds were the other variable, Sand Beach parking lot in July versus the same lot in November are completely different experiences and the trail felt like a different place depending on who else was on it. By December I had done it in fog and in early snow, in heat that made the iron rungs warm to the touch and in conditions where I was the only person on the mountain. That last sentence was the one I kept coming back for.The Beehive Loop in Acadia was my trail around 1.4 miles, exposed iron rung sections and it starts at the Sand Beach parking lot. I started in January last year because I was living in Bar Harbor for work and needed something consistent and it was close. By March it had become a Sunday habit and around April I made it deliberate. Same trail, every week for a full year.
The trail isn't recommended in wet conditions and Maine doesn't care about recommendations. I learned which rungs got slippery after rain and which ones held. Learned where the wind came from on the exposed sections in February and where it didn't reach. I have some money saved up and had been planning a trip to Banff for the fall, the Rockies have been on my list for years and the timing felt right but somewhere around June I caught myself not wanting to leave Bar Harbor for a week because I didn't want to break the streak and I realized something had shifted in how I was thinking about hiking.Th http://hiking.Th
#camping #hiking #activity
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e views from the top look out over the Bowl Pond and the Atlantic and I watched that same view go from frozen and grey in January to green in June to orange in October I guess. The crowds were the other variable, Sand Beach parking lot in July versus the same lot in November are completely different experiences and the trail felt like a different place depending on who else was on it. By December I had done it in fog and in early snow, in heat that made the iron rungs warm to the touch and in conditions where I was the only person on the mountain. That last sentence was the one I kept coming back for.The Beehive Loop in Acadia was my trail around 1.4 miles, exposed iron rung sections and it starts at the Sand Beach parking lot. I started in January last year because I was living in Bar Harbor for work and needed something consistent and it was close. By March it had become a Sunday habit and around April I made it deliberate. Same trail, every week for a full year.
The trail isn't recommended in wet conditions and Maine doesn't care about recommendations. I learned which rungs got slippery after rain and which ones held. Learned where the wind came from on the exposed sections in February and where it didn't reach. I have some money saved up and had been planning a trip to Banff for the fall, the Rockies have been on my list for years and the timing felt right but somewhere around June I caught myself not wanting to leave Bar Harbor for a week because I didn't want to break the streak and I realized something had shifted in how I was thinking about hiking.Th http://hiking.Th
#camping #hiking #activity
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