Maine is a country of unknown roads. When you hike or ride country roads or trails, you cross mysterious roads with no names in various states of pass-ability, and very often they are no longer on any maps or plans. There is no easy way to tell how far these roads will go and when they will eventually die down. So, by Wednesday, June 18 I created a trip from Ice Caves at Debsconeag Lake Wilderness Area through Nahmakanta Public Land and then to vast and wild land along Sias Hill Rd.
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| The forecast promised warm nights with some rain | Plan was to start the hike (red line) from Abol Bridge and continue on obscure winter trails between Debsconeag Lakes to Nahmakanta Lake and further to the West on Black Pond trail to return on bike (green line). |
What was new this time:
— Bear country requires a proper defense – I am taking several pounds of extra weight – a gun and an extra magazine for it.
— A new feature on AllTrails.com allows you to draw your future trip on a map and it will calculate the distance and elevation – very nice. That way I can see that I should start from 550′ elevation at ice caves, eventually gain height to about 1300′, and then bike back from these heights to the car.
Navigate through the List
- 01 2025-07 AT trip preparation (2025/06/30)
- 02 2025-07-01 TU from Boston to ME Northern Woods (2025/07/01)
- 03 2025-07-02 WE - Green snowmobile trails from Debsconeag to Nahmakanta (2025/07/02)
- 04 2025-07-03 TH from Nahmakanta to Black Pond motorized trail (2025/07/03)
- 05 2025-07-04 FR - down the Sias Hill Rd. on Golden Rd. to Abol Bridge (2025/07/04)
- 06 2025-07 Lessons and fixes (2025/07/05)
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