185 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - MAINE - Sección 2.3 - 100-Mile Wilderness. De KIW Road, a White Cap Mt. y Logan Brook Lean-to
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- Distance
- 12.25 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,822 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 2,073 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,566 ft
- TrailRank
-
88
5
- Min elevation
- 525 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1865
- Uploaded
- September 7, 2017
- Recorded
- September 2017
near Benson, Maine (United States)
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stage 185
⇐ Link to previous stage: 184 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - MAINE - Section 3.1 - 100-Mile Wilderness. Cloud Pond Lean-to a Chairback Mt and Katahdin Iron W. Rd.
⇒ Link to next leg: 186 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - MAINE - Section 2.2 - 100-Mile Wilderness. From Logan Brook Lean-to, to Crawford Pond and Jo-Mary Road
Tour of the Appalachian Trail, as it passes through the state of Maine (United States), from south to north, from the intersection of the AT with the track known as Katahdin Iron Works Road, to Logan Brook Lean-to.
The stage corresponds to section 2.3, according to the distribution of sections of the Appalachian Trail in the official guides and maps, in Maine, included in the section called ¨100-Mile Wilderness¨, which is characterized by the absence of populations and services during the 160 km. of your route, which forces you to anticipate and carry the necessary supplies for 8 or 9 days (10 days according to official recommendations).
However, as indicated above, it should be noted that although there are indeed no towns, houses or human settlements where food and other provisions can be replenished, this enormous expanse that crosses the Appalachian Trail in this area of Maine ( largely owned by a kind of consortium of private owners), is criss-crossed by numerous dirt tracks, wide and with very good surface, generally used for the circulation of large lorries from the lumber industry, and either for not putting at risk that private ownership of the area, either out of a simple spirit of cooperation, or to obtain complementary economic resources, or for all of this at the same time, the fact is that prior payment of a kind of ¨toll¨ of 14 dollars, presented with the appearance of entrance fee to a kind of park or natural space, cars can perfectly use those paths, and in fact there are numerous hikers who enter daily e in various areas and trails located in these 100-Mile Wilderness, to enjoy this natural space, dotted with hundreds of rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes, reservoirs, etc.
This ease of access through these tracks allows some owners of hostels located in nearby towns, which regularly welcome hikers who travel the AT, to offer shuttle or punctual supply services, previously agreed, along these 160 km ., using large iron boxes hidden at certain points where the AT crosses one of these access tracks, and which are equipped with a combination lock, placing in them the packages requested by some hikers, to replenish fuel, batteries , food products, clothing, and everything you need for days out. They also offer the possibility of offloading part of the backpack's weight, moving its contents to the next logistical support point.
On the other hand, with the exception of two or three stages (this is another one of them), the rest of the 100-Mile-Wilderness presents a relatively easy route, without great elevations, and that allows to advance longer distances daily than usual in Maine. Even so, we must not forget that the terrain in Maine is usually plagued by large roots, rocks, often mud, and numerous rivers without any bridge that allows them to cross them, which necessarily makes walking quite difficult and forces us to be prudent in the programming of daily distances.
Today's stage presents as its main point of interest the spectacular panoramic views to the north, which can be enjoyed from the top of White Cap Mountain, the last important summit that crosses the AT before reaching Katahdin Mt., and which allows you to contemplate first time the wide territory that remains until reaching the final point of the trail.
Although the distance is still considerable, the Katahdin can already be seen on the horizon of that kind of great wooded plain, full of lakes, that separates the White Cap Mountain and the Katahdin Mountain.
It is the visible proof that time is running out, which forces us to think now, with some emotion, that the end of the route of this extraordinary adventure of the Appalachian Trail is very close.
IBP index: 99 HKG
Total distance: 19.9 Km
Desn. accumulated ascent: 1261.42 m
Desn. accumulated descent: 720.36 m
Maximum height: 1077.22 m
Minimum height: 169.02m
Total time : 8:41:41 hrs
Moving time: 7:20:52 hrs
Stopped time: 1:20:49 h
Total average speed: 2.29 Km/h
Average moving speed: 2.71 Km/h
PPI index. IBP index is an automatic rating system that rates the difficulty of a route traveled
⇐ Link to previous stage: 184 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - MAINE - Section 3.1 - 100-Mile Wilderness. Cloud Pond Lean-to a Chairback Mt and Katahdin Iron W. Rd.
⇒ Link to next leg: 186 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - MAINE - Section 2.2 - 100-Mile Wilderness. From Logan Brook Lean-to, to Crawford Pond and Jo-Mary Road
Tour of the Appalachian Trail, as it passes through the state of Maine (United States), from south to north, from the intersection of the AT with the track known as Katahdin Iron Works Road, to Logan Brook Lean-to.
The stage corresponds to section 2.3, according to the distribution of sections of the Appalachian Trail in the official guides and maps, in Maine, included in the section called ¨100-Mile Wilderness¨, which is characterized by the absence of populations and services during the 160 km. of your route, which forces you to anticipate and carry the necessary supplies for 8 or 9 days (10 days according to official recommendations).
However, as indicated above, it should be noted that although there are indeed no towns, houses or human settlements where food and other provisions can be replenished, this enormous expanse that crosses the Appalachian Trail in this area of Maine ( largely owned by a kind of consortium of private owners), is criss-crossed by numerous dirt tracks, wide and with very good surface, generally used for the circulation of large lorries from the lumber industry, and either for not putting at risk that private ownership of the area, either out of a simple spirit of cooperation, or to obtain complementary economic resources, or for all of this at the same time, the fact is that prior payment of a kind of ¨toll¨ of 14 dollars, presented with the appearance of entrance fee to a kind of park or natural space, cars can perfectly use those paths, and in fact there are numerous hikers who enter daily e in various areas and trails located in these 100-Mile Wilderness, to enjoy this natural space, dotted with hundreds of rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes, reservoirs, etc.
This ease of access through these tracks allows some owners of hostels located in nearby towns, which regularly welcome hikers who travel the AT, to offer shuttle or punctual supply services, previously agreed, along these 160 km ., using large iron boxes hidden at certain points where the AT crosses one of these access tracks, and which are equipped with a combination lock, placing in them the packages requested by some hikers, to replenish fuel, batteries , food products, clothing, and everything you need for days out. They also offer the possibility of offloading part of the backpack's weight, moving its contents to the next logistical support point.
On the other hand, with the exception of two or three stages (this is another one of them), the rest of the 100-Mile-Wilderness presents a relatively easy route, without great elevations, and that allows to advance longer distances daily than usual in Maine. Even so, we must not forget that the terrain in Maine is usually plagued by large roots, rocks, often mud, and numerous rivers without any bridge that allows them to cross them, which necessarily makes walking quite difficult and forces us to be prudent in the programming of daily distances.
Today's stage presents as its main point of interest the spectacular panoramic views to the north, which can be enjoyed from the top of White Cap Mountain, the last important summit that crosses the AT before reaching Katahdin Mt., and which allows you to contemplate first time the wide territory that remains until reaching the final point of the trail.
Although the distance is still considerable, the Katahdin can already be seen on the horizon of that kind of great wooded plain, full of lakes, that separates the White Cap Mountain and the Katahdin Mountain.
It is the visible proof that time is running out, which forces us to think now, with some emotion, that the end of the route of this extraordinary adventure of the Appalachian Trail is very close.
IBP index: 99 HKG
Total distance: 19.9 Km
Desn. accumulated ascent: 1261.42 m
Desn. accumulated descent: 720.36 m
Maximum height: 1077.22 m
Minimum height: 169.02m
Total time : 8:41:41 hrs
Moving time: 7:20:52 hrs
Stopped time: 1:20:49 h
Total average speed: 2.29 Km/h
Average moving speed: 2.71 Km/h
PPI index. IBP index is an automatic rating system that rates the difficulty of a route traveled
Waypoints
Car park
679 ft
Intersección del AT con Katahdin Iron Works Road, y estacionamiento.
Intersección del AT con Katahdin Iron Works Road, y estacionamiento.
Intersection
863 ft
Intersección del AT con el Gulf Hagas Trail
Intersección del AT con el Gulf Hagas Trail
Photo
1,119 ft
Subida con escasa pendiente y buen firme, siguiendo el curso del Gulf Hagas Brook
Climb with little slope and good firm, following the course of the Gulf Hagas Brook
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River
1,293 ft
El sendero continúa junto al Gulf Hagas Brook.
El sendero continúa junto al Gulf Hagas Brook.
Wilderness hut
Summit
Campsite
Panorama
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Etapa larga y dura, pero espectacular, como todo en Maine