Monday September 2

Monday September 2

Around 4 AM the rain begins and does not bid well for a day outside hiking. We pack up the camper head to town and drive the 20 miles to the National Monument where we park the camper and decide what’s next. Photographing in the rain often works provided the wind is not blowing. Wind tends to blow the rain onto the lens thus making photographing problematic.

It’s windy so it’s not a day for photography.  The National Monument has The Katahdin Loop Road, an 18 mile loop that is mostly one way. The road coming into the Monument as well as the Loop Road are rough gravel. The Park to the camping area is okay for a small trailer but one needs to drive slowly. We are often driving less than 10 mph just to be safe. Leaving the camper we start off on the Loop Road. The speed limit is 15 mph and often that is too fast. It’s a narrow one lane gravel road. Heading off on the loop the wind picks up and everything is blowing around. Not a day for photograph. Along the loop we stop at various places looking at ponds or “views of Mt. Katahdin.” Views of Mt. Katahdin are a pipe dream since we looking at a solid wall of clouds and no mountains are to be seen anywhere.

After completing the drive we head back to the camper and hunker down for the rest of the day into night. Our scouting trip today gives us better ideas what to do tomorrow.