Each October, the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society schedules a weekend of outdoor activities in conjunction with our annual business meeting, collectively called the Fall Supper. In recent years, the event was held on Mount Desert Island. However, this year we decided to change the venue to Carrabassett Valley. Like Mount Desert Island, the valley […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: More West Fest adventures
A large group of Chowderheads with the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society were taking a break for lunch at a riverside campsite at Jamaica State Park in Vermont during the West Fest. We were participating in an annual fall whitewater release on the West River and had concluded our first descent of a 3-mile section […]
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Discover a new book amid autumn leaves on Harpswell Cliff Trail
“Room on a Broom” will be displayed through Nov. 1, providing local children with a free opportunity to read outdoors, weather permitting.
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A frozen human foot found on Mount Everest revives a century-old mystery
Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn ‘Sandy’ Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.
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Outdoors groups push for passage of Maine’s first trail bond
The $30 million bond, which goes to voters in November, would pay for engineers, heavy equipment and laborers needed to build trails that will withstand climate change and make Maine a world-class outdoor recreation leader, advocates say.
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Co-workers left him behind on a mountaintop. He got stuck overnight.
A team retreat turned into an emergency for the one colleague who got separated from his team.
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Storm damage, climate change take toll on Portland hiking trails
Portland Trails is running an emergency summer fundraising campaign to raise $100,000 in materials needed to fix trails, replace bridges and repair erosion caused by flooding.
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Teen hiker from Quebec released from hospital after collapse on Appalachian Trail near Caratunk
Elyssa Bernardin, 14, of Saint-Lambert. Quebec, fell unconscious from heat exhaustion while on the Appalachian Trail, according to a state official.
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Hiking into the path of totality
I was skeptical about making the effort to view the total solar eclipse on April 8. After several months of wet, stormy, very cloudy weather, I expected another gray, bad-weather day. About a week in advance of the eclipse, meteorologists with the local television stations began predicting a fabulous, warm, sunny day. After an Easter […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: A glorious climb of barren Barrel Ridge
We were greeted with another remarkable late-winter day when six of us arose in the bunkhouse at South Branch Pond on the third day of our Baxter State Park expedition. Based on a forecast obtained the day before on North Traveler Mountain, this was the last quality weather of our six-day trip. We were committed […]