I was going to combine pics of this climb with another in northern Maine, but it would just be too many pics. Stay tuned for that one if you're interested I guess, the pics are cool, much better than these IMO.

Anyhow, here's the scoop. Had a day off from work, September 21 as I recall. Weather was fair, hopped on the bike and rode to Acadia National Park. I had intended to climb this trail last Spring, but had forgotten Peregrine falcons nest there till Mid-August and the trail is closed until they've done their thing.

Here's a link describing the trail.  http://www.acadiamagic.com/precipice-trail.htm





I enjoyed it tremendously, it was a pretty unique climb.


















twice, had to crawl through and under boulders



ALL kinds of iron rungs and ladders, pretty cool implements




side trail, closed




The "stairs" like this are pretty sweet




paging VaCaver. We don't have much for caves around here, I've climbed around through "slab caves" in Western Maine, very cool, but not exactly cavernous.






As I'm typing this, I'm realizing I uploaded more pics of the climb than the view. Dumbass














bwahahaha I made it.
















the critters were just destroying pine cones all over the mountain. Little hoarders. Winter is coming









I'll create a thread with pics from Big Spencer Mountain soon. Very cool mountain, very different than this one.

Check ya later.

I'm jealous

How close to Portland is this?

Awesome pics!!!Looked like a great time!!

Always enjoy your posts, cool pictures in all of them.

Would hate your winters though.

less than 200 miles

Looks like a blast, I love a good hike.

Sweet, I love these threads.

Looks like a great day, and amazing views...

Very nice pics.



Have you been through Mahoosuc Notch?

I don't believe so. Not entirely sure actually.

I had an awesome science teacher that took a class of us all through Grafton Notch S.P. about 15 years ago, and we climbed Old Speck, went through a whole bunch of caves, but I haven't hiked in that specific area too much since. Just short jaunts when I'm passing through there on the motorcycle.

I want to pretty bad now though.

For a long time I've wanted to hike the length of the Appalacian Trail, but I've come to accept that it's not a very feasable scenario for me financially. My new goal, occurred to me earlier this year, is to section hike the length of the AT in Maine, and maybe go from there.

Awesome! The wife and I climbed it 10 years ago this month. It's nice to see that the route is still serviceable.

Good job on the pics.

Sweet pics Savage and thaks for sharing them with our fellow members.  We need more threads like these.  

Nice...........very nice.
That looks fun as hell.

I bet right about now , and in the coming couple weeks , the views over the countryside with the changing foliage will be priceless.
Dianne (GS67)  just sent me some foliage pics she took over the weekend and its getting really pretty up there...Im homesick.




This is the best time of the year to be in Northern New England.

I hiked the Notch and climbed the Arm, the Arm was quite the workout.

Acadia's really nice. I had never done that trail.
My favorite places are Katadyn and the Bigelow range for hiking. The Androscoggin, Magalloway and Umbagog for paddling.

Great pics. Thanks for posting them.

It is gorgeous.

http://www.maine.gov/doc/foliage/report/index.shtml

Sometimes I'll just be driving down the road or something of that nature and it'll hit you like a brick wall how pretty a treeline across a field is, or the view across a pond. The simple things.

Nice! No way you'd get me on that trail, though. Nope, nuh uh.

It's really pretty from the bottom too

Actually, now that I think about it, there are some considerably less drastic trails to the top.