May 14-15, 2022 Miles: 100.14 Start: 6:00 AM, Saturday Finish: 10:53 AM, Sunday Total time: 28:53 Location: Androscoggin Riverlands State Park Me, my partner, and my friend Justin drove up to Maine together on Friday afternoon. We drove to Martin Stream Campground to pick up our registration packets, and then swung by the State Park … Continue reading Riverlands 100
January 16, 2022 Start/End: Big Island Rd, side of the road Miles: 14.05 Elevation gain: 5295′ GPS Track I woke up at 6am, prepped my water bottles with boiling water, and then started driving for the trailhead. I was relieved to know the roads I was going to drive were plowed and open; it had … Continue reading Winter NE100: Kennebago Divide, White Cap, Boundary
January 15, 2022 Start/End: Wiggle Brook Rd, plowed pull-off Miles: 4.15 Elevation gain: 1627′ GPS track I woke up at 6am, hopped into my car that I’d packed up the night before, and drove the 5 hours up to Rangeley Maine. I dropped my overnight bag where I was staying the night, changed into my … Continue reading Winter NE100: Snow Cupsuptic
December 26, 2021 Start/end: Grafton Notch trailhead Miles: 7.93 Elevation gain: 3386′ GPS track I was up early, and despite a few inches of snow on the ground that hadn’t been plowed yet, I headed out from the trailhead in my snowshoes by 7:15am. The trail wasn’t in bad condition. Four people had hiked to … Continue reading Winter NE100: Baldpate
December 25, 2021 Start/end: Carlo-Goose Eye Trailhead Miles: 5.3 Elevation gain: 2388′ GPS Track After a late night and a rough hike up Elephant, I let myself sleep in until 8am and then packed up and headed out. The trailhead is on an old logging road that I believe may be a snowmobile track in … Continue reading Winter NE100: Goose Eye
December 24, 2021 Start/end: parked at 2 boulders on Elephant Mtn Rd Miles: 7.2 Elevation gain: 2454′ GPS track I started the hike on the later side, around 4:30pm, with sunset not far away. I figured it wouldn’t be too bad; I had perhaps half fresh batteries in my headlamp and I didn’t recall Elephant … Continue reading Winter NE100: Elephant
December 24, 2021 Start/end: by Bambi Ln, on Kennebago Rd Miles: 8.77 Elevation gain: 2808′ GPS track After a failed attempt to drive out to the White Cap/Kennebago Divide trailhead (it wasn’t plowed after the 3-4″ snowfall on Wed night and I was already concerned about hiking when it was -10), I headed to Kennebago … Continue reading Winter NE100: East Kennebago
December 23, 2021 Start/end: original trailhead on Snow Mtn Rd Miles: 7.31 Elevation gain: 2575′ GPS track I headed to the trailhead in the early afternoon, nervous to see if I would find it plowed or gated. I was relieved to find it open and mostly plowed; the last third of the road hadn’t been … Continue reading Winter NE100: Snow (Chain of Ponds)
Sunday, March 7, 2021 Start/end: Rt-27 AT parking lot Miles: 17.0 Elevation gain: 4369′ I left from the parking lot at 6:30am, ready for my final Winter 67 hike. Per the ME ATC chapter, I parked at the Rt-27 parking lot rather than at the end of Stratton Brook Pond Rd. On my way out, … Continue reading Winter 67: Bigelows-West, Avery, South Horn
Saturday, March 6, 2021 Start/end: Sugarloaf golf course/West mountain parking lot Miles: 15.86 Elevation gain: 3025′ I was up early but I took my time heading out to the trailhead, since I knew that it was going to start in the low single digits and be windy all day, so I wanted to give the … Continue reading Winter 67: Redington
Transcending Mountains 