Headed North again!! UPDATED with LOTS of pics

[ebinmaine 67,274]

We're heading to the Great North Maine woods !!

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2020 by ebinmaine

[squonk 41,023]

Better bring me back some Ploye mix! 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

12 minutes ago, squonk said:

Better bring me back some Ploye mix! 

I'd be happy to but we're not going quite that far. 

[johnnymag3 2,515]

Be safe, enjoy the ride !!! Did you put out extra food for the Horses ? and some extra buckets of Water ?

[ebinmaine 67,274]

1 minute ago, johnnymag3 said:

Be safe, enjoy the ride !!! Did you put out extra food for the Horses ? and some extra buckets of Water ?

Thanks and yes of course. 

 

They're well taken care of!!

 

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[ebinmaine 67,274]

 

[D_Mac 8,593]

I havent been camping in a few years now. Miss it. Maybe I will get the tent out just to see if it is all still there. Should sell it. I havent used it in forever. Last several times I went camping I used the pop up campers I had. Have fun ! 

[Herder 2,354]

Enjoy, looking forward to the pic's.  You guys hike in some awesome places.  Be safe.

[8ntruck 6,991]

You guys far enough north to be able to find cloud berries?

[ebinmaine 67,274]

3 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

You guys far enough north to be able to find cloud berries?

Not that I've ever seen....

[8ntruck 6,991]

15 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Not that I've ever seen....

We hosted a Finnish exchange student when our kids were in high school.  He asked about cloud berries while was here.  That was the first we had heard of them.  When we visited his family in Finland a couple of years later, we learned about them first hand, as they were in season when we were there.  They sure good on ice cream!

 

The internet claims that they can be found in the extreme northern edges of the U.S. and in Canada.  Must be pretty rare, as I have never found anybody in the U.S. that knows about cloud berries.

[Stormin 9,981]

 Have a good trip, Eric.

 

BTW. Who's working on Colossus?

 

 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Have a great trip and come home healthy and save.

 

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

Looks like it's a good trip Eric but one thing. Looks like you took half the house! 😂😂

sure hope you brought some bear repellent or a 357!

Edited August 16, 2020 by The Tuul Crib

[ebinmaine 67,274]

On 8/15/2020 at 8:23 PM, The Tuul Crib said:

Looks like it's a good trip Eric but one thing. Looks like you took half the house! 😂😂

sure hope you brought some bear repellent or a 357!

 

Bears don't bother anyone in New England. 

It's the humans one has to be concerned with. 

 

But we do carry..

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Scant signal here. 

We're on top of Big Spencer Mountain. 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Back in civilisation. 

Trina got some fantastic pics. 

 

We'll post them tomorrow. ....

 

AWESOME trip!!!!!

[D_Mac 8,593]

Welcome Back EB ...... Hope you had a great trip.

[Stormin 9,981]

Oh! Good! Looking forward to Trina's photo's.

 

BTW. Colossus has been pining for you.

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Here's a boat load of pics from our adventure!

 

 

 

 

Almost brown blue cah (car) from the dirt roads

 

 

My 44 LB lap dog

 

 

Resting by the fire. She LOVES the fire.

 

 

The next few are from the first camping location.

There was a ton of spider webs in the morning dew.

And a fair assortment of noisy grackles.

 

 

 

 

Local wildlife watering hole. Moose tracks all through the mud.

 

 

 

The matted down grass is a moose bed.

 

 

YES a bear DOES poop in the woods!!!!!

 

 

 

One of many pics of Big Spencer Mountain.

 

 

Another view

 

 

 

Big Spencer from across the pond at our second camp site

 

 

 

 

 

A view of Mt Katahdin from half way up Big Spencer. On the right. Note the top is in the clouds.

 

 

Part of the trail up Spencer. The boards go across a stream.

 

 

 

Big Spencer has a very large communications station at the top.

 

 

 

The view from our lunch break

 

 

Katahdin again. Now out of cloud cover.

We've hiked that in the past and would do it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a different angle on Big Spencer. The part we hike is the very steep LH face.

During this walk I fell in the stream and soaked my right leg in some nasty mud muck water.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were lucky enough to watch a cow moose a couple times in the pictured pond.

 

A wonderful week!!!!

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Here's a short video showing an old skidder track that's full of moose tracks

 

 

 

 

 

[PeacemakerJack 10,738]

Those are great pictures Trina and Eric! Thank you for taking us on the adventure with you.  Many of those pics look like they belong in outfitter calendar👍🏻  Beautiful country

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Just now, PeacemakerJack said:

Those are great pictures Trina 

 

Thank you for taking us on the adventure with you.  Many of those pics look like they belong in outfitter calendar👍🏻  Beautiful country

 

Hehehe....

ALL her brother man.  

 

My little lady has quite the photographic eye!!

 

[Stormin 9,981]

 Thanks for the photo's.  Great scenery you have.