3 months ago Maine students experience what it’s like to be lost on Katahdin By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff For 98 minutes, about 1,600 school kids, from Millinocket to Fort Fairfield, will be transported into the sometimes terrifying tale of the boy who survived alone in the harshest of Maine landscapes.
4 months ago Only experienced hikers should take on these rugged mountains By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff To the northwest of Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain, rises a wall of granite and spruce, a chain of mountains called The Brothers.
5 months ago What it’s like to hike Maine’s scariest trail By Aislinn Sarnacki The jagged backbone of a stone giant, Knife Edge stretched before us.
7 months ago How to protect yourself from dangerous people while hiking By Aislinn Sarncki I bought pepper spray a few days ago.
7 months ago You can hike in Maine and Morocco and be in the same mountain range By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers in the northern half of the state are used to seeing an eclectic array of people winding their way along the Appalachian Trail — usually, in the final few hundred miles of the more than 2,000 mile journey by foot that begins in Georgia and ends on Katahdin, a spectacular finale for one of the most epic hikes in the world.