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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Discovering the Seboeis Riverside Trail
In recent years, the Butler Conservation Fund (BCF) has created two extraordinary outdoor facilities in Maine: Penobscot River Trails (PRT) in Grindstone and Cobscook Shores in the Cobscook Bay area of Washington County. I’ve had the good fortune to hike the Cobscook Shores trails and have benefited from multiple excursions biking and skiing the PRT. …
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Biking Historic Quebec
My Maine outdoor companions and I have enjoyed adventures with our Quebec friends for about thirty years. We’ve visited them to paddle whitewater, sea kayak, ski, hike, and bike. On many occasions, they’ve joined us in Maine for similar exploits. The pandemic resulted in a three-year border crossing hiatus. Recently, six of us retired Mainers…
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Moosehead Surf & Turf
Moosehead is Maine’s largest lake and Mount Kineo is one of the state’s most distinctive peaks. Combining a kayak paddle on the lake with a climb of Mount Kineo, which I call a surf and turf, seemed like the ideal way to end the kayaking season and begin fall hiking. A previous Moosehead surf and…
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Whitewater Drama on Little Suncook River
Little Suncook River in south-central New Hampshire is a tiny whitewater creek more aptly called a stream or brook. Located in Epsom, the exciting descent flows west from Northwood Lake along Route 4 before entering Suncook River east of Concord. With the exception of spring runoff and after heavy rain, the diminutive freshet is rarely…
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Hiking Little Jackson and Tumbledown Mountains
A trek on Little Jackson and Tumbledown Mountains is the second best mountain hike in Maine. How do I know its second best? I read it in my book, Maine Al Fresco: The Fifty Finest Outdoor Adventures in Maine. Seriously, with the exception of Mount Katahdin, I can’t think of any mountain hike in Maine that…
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: The Best Nordic Skiing This Side of the Rockies
The Facebook page for the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center (RLTC) announces, “The best Nordic skiing this side of the Rockies.” That’s a fairly bold declaration but it may be true this winter. Beginning in early December, I started watching the weather and checking Nordic ski areas in search of decent snow. There hasn’t been much. …
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Foggy misadventures on the Bold Coast
The Bold Coast in eastern Maine meets my definition of bold. For about 20 miles between Lubec and Cutler, it is an almost continuous succession of tall, dramatic cliffs and a rugged landscape completely exposed to the vicissitudes of the open sea. The nearby Bay of Fundy has some of the most extreme tidal ranges…