Answering Ed
This was a carefully crafted trip which allowed easy communication home, and which included two guys who long ago bailed from our group. Bill Lewis who’d finally gotten a real job teaching fifth graders and Dan who’d spent so much time in a sitting position that moving about, even as little as we do, pushed his limits.
So, we headed back to First Debsconeag which tested our four wheel drive vehicles more than our flabby arms, and which has a primo view of Mt. Katahdin.
Our late night swim ranks as one of the best. The water was cold enough to make your skin feel like it was on fire, but a warm breeze meant for once we weren’t first taking off layers of cotton and down before our plunge. But the best part was soaping up under a full moon with wisps of white clouds and faint stars.
No stars, no clouds, this shot was taken earlier in the evening.
There’s lots more to tell but Adam’s been busy at work.
Was this a Martha Stewart, 4-star cabin trip? (I seem to remember a long-ago float-plane trip to a first class lodge with window curtains, back in the ancient Mainecourse past.) And no canoes! But at least you did the midnight plunge, which keeps the old camping spirit alive. Nice moon refection shot.
Let’s hear Smiling Dan’s side of the story.
Comment by rakkity — October 31, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
There were so canoes … ! No floatplane or cabin, though. A site destroyed by wind, tent buffeted into sleeplessness, and putting out into whitecaps. Which is not to deny the word “cushy”. Or short.
In the temporary absence of a new mainecourse addition, one can always go to the last Debsconeag trip’s page for a very nice aerial of the area and route, and if you click on the camera icon lower left, the gallery guide graphic https://mainecourse.com/first_deb/debsconeag.html tells the route — follow the dots from the yellow dot at the put-in to the dense cluster of 5 dots, being the campsite. Not taxing, but sufficient for some remove.
Comment by el Kib — November 1, 2007 @ 7:33 am
P.S. The gallery dots are all links to photos, the lack of a gallery thumbnail matrix or a “back” button on each photo deliberate so you have to return to the graphic and acquire a sense of the context/location for each image.
Comment by adam — November 1, 2007 @ 7:50 am