Day 15

Today we woke up bright and early in a little town in Maine. It was the closest town to the Baxter State Park which was where we got to hike to the northern terminus of the Applachian Trail! Now, you may be thinking that this was just similar to the southern terminus earlier in the trip.. well you are surely mistaken. There are about six trails that go up to the top of the mountain and of course, being us we signed up for the "shortest one" but that was not so obviously the steepest one. We are talking about one notch lower than mountain climbing. Fallen rocks going straight up the 3.8 mile trail. It really tested what kind of shape we were in. I personally really liked it and unlike father, he got a little sick on the way down and would probably rather chew glass than do it again. I difinitely hope I get to do it again sometime in my life. And just in case you haven't caught on how bad it was, we started at 7AM and completed it at 5:30.

road trip 2011