Appalachian Trail Happiness: Maine

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~ Robert Frost

If you’ve been following along you know that I injured my knee and won’t be able to fully complete my thru-hike.  I will finish up 300 miles or so I skipped between Harpers Ferry and CT, easier miles.  But I did want to hike in every state so recently I did day hikes in NH and in Maine. I recently posted about my NH hike, and this is one of a couple of posts about my time in Maine.  I decided to do a hike out of Grafton Notch State Park, a little up and back hike to Table Top.

The AT comes down off this mountain, about a 4000 foot descent, this is part of what makes Maine so tough.

Before hitting the trail I made a quick stop a Screw Auger State Park, really cool little area in the park.

There was even some 90 year old graffiti chiseled into the rock.

My standard selfie on the trail.

The hike up to Table Top was about 700 feet over a mile but the trail really wasn’t all that tough.  Who knows, maybe I still have some legs left after all, the views from on top of Table Top were magnificent.

I took a little lunch break on top and took a little bit of a vertigo selfie.

A great hike my friends and my last day hike before returning to the trail full-time for a month. Have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane