Hiking in Maine

There have been many topics I have wanted to cover but couldn't because my blogspot app wouldn't publish so now I have to choose. I am picking the one most fresh in my mind, the trails of Maine. It can be easily overlooked that hiking is pretty much all the same the only thing changing is the elevation. If only this were the case. In Maine (apparently New Hampshire and Pennsylvania as well) mountains are tough but not as destructive as the trails that go up and down them. The "trails" are not the nice little paths with scattered pine needles and leaves, they are made of rocks, roots and the dirt below them. The roots will twist your ankles and make your feet incredibly sore while cracked boulders make for a sometimes nearly vertical climb. At some points it is not quite rock climbing, but is definitely not hiking. It is so bad that sometimes there are metal rods inserted into massive boulders so there is a feasible way of getting up and down. Bored and with little on my mind I tried to create a name for this kind of "hiking" and this is what I came up with "Mountain of lunges and knee-breaks" or "Boulder jump quads killer". But despite the unforgiving terrain Maine does offer some unparalleled views at the summits. I would love to upload them but importing my pictures onto the library's machine isn't very easy and I have to grab my laundry. I will however be posting all of my pictures (when I get WiFi) to my Instagram. To see those you can follow me at nathanielverbeck. Happy Hiking.

 -Nathaniel