Saturday, 9\/26<\/p>\n
Yesterday when leaving Baxter State Park Jodi and I made it a point to
\nask the ranger what time we would have to be at the gate in order to
\nbe sure to be able to park at Katahdin Stream Campground (KSC). The
\nranger told us that KSC would not fill up, that at this time of year
\nthe only lot that filled up is Roaring Brook. Well, that was great
\nnews, as I had been thinking we would have to be up at 4:00am and
\nsitting in line when the gate opened at 5:00. Instead I set the alarm
\non my phone for 4:45, and we were in town at the diner when it opened
\nat 5:00 for breakfast. By 6:00 we were approaching the gate to Baxter
\nState Park when suddenly we had to stop because there was a huge line
\nof cars ahead of us. It was well past 7:00 when we finally got to the
\ngate, only to find that all of the trailheads for the various trails
\nup Katahdin were all full! So much for what we had been told yesterday
\nafternoon. We were also told that we could not park somewhere else and
\nwalk to the Hunt Trail (that’s the route the AT follows) trailhead, as
\nthe purpose of limiting parking is to limit the number of hikers on
\nthe mountain, and thus we could not climb Katahdin today.<\/p>\n
Disappointed, but with no options, we turned around and drove back to
\ntown. Our only choice is to go back tomorrow and try again. The
\nweather today is absolutely perfect, clear and dry and cool. Tomorrow
\nthere is an 80% chance of rain, and it may very well be a miserable
\nday up on the mountain. In fact, there is a chance it may be a Class 4
\nday, which means all trails will be closed and we may not be allowed
\nto climb the mountain. I sure hope that is not the case, as we have to
\nleave here Monday morning. Jodi has work scheduled the rest of the
\nweek.<\/p>\n
This sure isn’t how I envisioned my hike ending. If we end up not
\nbeing able to climb tomorrow I am still going to call this a
\nthru-hike. I have been up Katahdin twice before, the last time just
\nover a year ago, so it’s not like I will have skipped climbing the
\nmountain, but I sure would prefer to get up there tomorrow.<\/p>\n
— Saturday, 9\/26 Yesterday when leaving Baxter State Park Jodi and I made it a point to ask the ranger what time we would have to be at the gate in order to be sure to be able to park at Katahdin Stream Campground (KSC). The ranger told us that KSC would not fill up, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at_thru_hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMonkeywrench
\nAllen F. Freeman
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