Up granite steps with iron rungs, down granite slabs, up granite slabs, and down a granite river.
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Six Summits Trail, Acadia National Park
The Six Summits trail in Acadia National Park has many ups. They’re all up granite outcroppings. Your calves will feel like someone tore them. For days. You won’t regret it.
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Beehive-Bowl-Gorham Mountain-Ocean Path, Acadia National Park
Spoiler: There are no otters in Otter Cove.
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Return to 9 Ponds, Frederick Municipal Forest
We first hiked the 9 Ponds Loop on January 18th, Our Second Year of the Pandemic (2021). It was so nice that we hiked it again on March 7th. It took us four months to get back again to see it in the non-winter, but we made up for the dreadful lassitude by adding on some extra mileage (to our detriment, as we both pooped out 9 miles in to what become an 11-mile hike, despite being svelter and in better shape than last time).
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Lapidum Rock Run Loop, Susquehanna State Park
Carpets of bluebells in the forest in April are what drew us to Lapidum Rock Run Loop in Susquehanna State Park, and it did not disappoint.
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