PICS ADDED! Car is STUFFED to the gills and headed North

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Meeha Mirror and Trina BBT and myself are headed once again to the Great North Maine Woods. 

 

Can't get enough and don't want to leave when we're there. 

 

We'll share pics when we get back in phone range Sunday. 

 

Edited November 4, 2020 by ebinmaine

[SylvanLakeWH 25,493]

Safe travels!

[Herder 2,354]

Enjoy EB & family, cant wait to see to the pic's.

[RJ Hamner 1,007]

Have Fun and try NOT to have a close encounter with a moose.  Just Sayin'

[ebinmaine 67,288]

6 minutes ago, RJ Hamner said:

Have Fun and try NOT to have a close encounter with a moose.  Just Sayin'

I wouldn't mind being maybe 50 feet from one but closer could get "interesting". 

 

2 or 3 years back we had a BIG moose walk right between the 2 tents about dawn. 

 

[midpack 862]

Can't go too much further or you'll be in Canada 😉

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Tons of forest between here and there. 

 

Signing off til Sunday...

 

[JCM 9,130]

I don't have to tell you 2 to have fun, just be safe, we need our WH budds, Ribs and mini M & G, looking forward to it.     

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Have a safe travels and have a great Time.

 

Stay Safe Bro.

[Pullstart 62,799]

Seems I’m too late to wish you safe travels, hopefully BBT left her shovel back in case you back mouth her, and WHERE’S THE 

[Darb1964 1,042]

I'll be heading to Burlington Maine November 13. For a week or so,in persecute of the elusive White tailed deer. Very enjoyable and looking forward to the trip, no place like northern Maine, just hope we don't get the three feet of snow like last year. Three inches would be nice.

Enjoy Eric !!

[ZXT 2,401]

1 hour ago, Darb1964 said:

I'll be heading to Burlington Maine November 13. For a week or so,in persecute of the elusive White tailed deer. Very enjoyable and looking forward to the trip, no place like northern Maine, just hope we don't get the three feet of snow like last year. Three inches would be nice.

Enjoy Eric !!

Come down here and drive on a back road for about a mile at night. You'll see at least a dozen white-tailed deer, and you wont even have to get out of the car and into the cold! I will warn that they don't like to be persecuted. 

 

Have fun, Eric!

Edited October 29, 2020 by ZXT

[Darb1964 1,042]

18 hours ago, ZXT said:

Come down here and drive on a back road for about a mile at night. You'll see at least a dozen white-tailed deer, and you wont even have to get out of the car and into the cold! I will warn that they don't like to be persecuted. 

 

Have fun, Eric!

Maine and my home state of Massachusetts is a challenge to harvest a deer. In the area's I hunt anyway. I know Texas is different in how they hunt deer and there is many of them. I in my old age now, just like getting out, and that means out of the truck and in the woods. If I get one very happy thing and the Meat is very nice also. When I was a young buck, I went every chance I could no matter the weather and had much success. Now if I can get one I'm happy. 

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Halfway up Big Spencer. All's well. Been some kinda cold. Low 20s in am. Never above freezing Friday.  Great adventure. Leaving tomorrow. 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Above post is Mt Kahtahdin. 

 

Zero magnification, then 8X. 

[OldWorkHorse 3,045]

44 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Above post is Mt Kahtahdin. 

 

 

Some beautiful right there. Miss that place use to work in the park at the base nothing like waking up to a view like that. Enjoy!

[ebinmaine 67,288]

On 10/31/2020 at 2:27 PM, OldWorkHorse said:

Some beautiful right there. Miss that place use to work in the park at the base nothing like waking up to a view like that. Enjoy!

Trip went well overall.

Thank you.

 

I'll get Trina to text some pics to this phone later and post them.

[Stormin 9,981]

 Trina! We're waiting!

[ebinmaine 67,288]

4 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 Trina! We're waiting!

Norman ya got to be patient boy. 

 

I'm not even going to see her until sometime after 6:00 p.m. my time. I hate to put you through this but you may just have to wait until tomorrow over there on the other side of the pond.

 

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Haven't had time do the swap over of pics. 

Here's a quick video of the pond at the bottom of the hill. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,799]

Right at the end, in the glare... was that Nessy?

[WHX?? 48,789]

Yur on crack Kev.... 

[ebinmaine 67,288]

13 minutes ago, pullstart said:

Right at the end, in the glare... was that Nessy?

Of course. 

We bought a loch Ness monster for our Mirror monster. 

[ebinmaine 67,288]

Finally got some pictures to post for you folks. We've been every kind of busy and back again this week.

 

Couple of interesting things of note that didn't make it into the pictures. We had a flock of birds come through that is well known to be attracted to cold weather. Called a White Wing Crossbill.

Both of us have lived in Northern New England our whole lives and neither one of us could remember ever seeing one of them before.

We did get some pictures but they basically a grainy fuzzy shot of the driveway that would be relatively unimpressive to say the least.

 

Very early on Friday morning I was out of bed before the other two which is normal practice for us. A very large long-legged jackrabbit ran across the access road and away from the campsite. That is particularly interesting to us because jackrabbits are more and more rare in Maine and in some areas have been accidentally eradicated.

 

 

Look closely at the picture where my glove is pointing. There's a tiny little pine cone stuffed right into a crack.  By what? Who knows?

 

 

 

We learned about a week ago that this is Partridge poop so I thought I would share it with ya. 

 

Moose pooo

 

 

 

End of crappy pictures...

 

 

Cool ice crystals that were in the trail

 

 

This particular Mountain has a history that goes back around a hundred years as a fire and communications top. Up until the early 90s it had a manned fire tower 6 to 9 months out of the year depending on the season.

It's tough to see it but I'm holding a piece of single conductor unsheathed cable that was part of their system and ran a couple miles down to the base of the Hill. There's a ton of it still there wrapped around certain trees and you can see that this tree was choked off at one point. Bent over, decided to fight for its life and then twisted up.

 

 

 

 

 

This pile of wood represents maybe about 60% of what we harvested and burned while we were up there. We did bring some seasoned dry Beech to get the fires really going when we needed to.

 

 

 

Here you can see the mylar backing reflector that we used to throw some of the heat back towards our chairs

 

 

 

I'll have about 18 or 20 pictures later on.....

[Pullstart 62,799]

That Mylar idea is a pretty good one!  Make sure to tell BBT great work on the firewood!