How Do You Have An EPIC Maine Adventure Vacation?
If you are fit and adventurous and want to experience my home state in a way not many know about, then read on. Get yourself to Maine. Fly into Boston or Portland. However you do it, just get here. The best time to do what I propose would be the first two weeks of September as the bugs and tourists are all gone yet its still warm out. Climb Mt. Katahdin via Helon Taylor trail and Knifes Edge. You will need to park at Roaring Brook http://www.naturalbornhikers.com/Katahdin/MountKatahdin.htm which means you either have to camp overnight in the park or get up very early and be at the gate when they open them up. Be prepared for tough weather but if you get a great day, you will feel like you are in the Rockies. A loop will take you about 8 hours. Soak your feet in the river at the end. Raft the Penobscot or Kennebec River http://www.northernoutdoors.com/ The Penobscot is more difficult with more rocks but some wicked drops. The Kennebec is better for full families. Either way, Northern Ou
