When this blog began, Bailey Tuckerman Kent was an 8-week-old Bernese Mountain Dog living in the western mountains of Maine with his writer dad, Rich. These are their stories.... and don't forget, click on most photos to enlarge.
I intend to hike the Dunn Falls trail off the AT, but for some reason--oh, threatening skies--I stopped at Cataracts instead. This trail parallels a river and an extension just heads off into Never-Neverland. It looks like the trail heads toward the AT but we didn't go that far. Fun pictures, though.
Canadian forest fires out west caused haze over the mountains of western Maine. I still felt energized by the mountains, the leftover snow, running water, and Bailey's strength in the climb. I had a sense when we arrived that we'd only make it half way up Lollapalooza, but the dog is a machine and motored his way up, grabbing mouthfuls of snow, running on some flat sections, and slurping from the streams running down the alpine trail. What an impressive climb for the oldster. On our way home, we stopped off at the home of Estelle and Ralph, the folks whose dog Maggie gave birth to Bailey and his sisters in May 2010. Always fun to see them and visit Bailey's first home. They liked hearing his stories... I suppose I told too many.
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| Le machine. |
This new trail connects one mile up on Yellow Trail and heads back down to the Andover Road. When you read the Andover road, it's about a half mile walk back to the Whitecap Trailhead parking lot. It's a woodsy trail with no views at this time of year except for peeks through branches at the mountain ranges on the way up to Andover.
Click on the following trail name and you'll see my AllTrails recording of the hike: River to Ridge Trail.
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| Saddleback Mountain, Rangeley, Maine |
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| Cartoon effect |
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| After a Mystery Mountain hike. |
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| During a Whitecap hike |
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| Crazy boy/ |
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| Maybe 8-10 years ago on Mt. Zircon |
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| Three years ago at the "Famous Sign." |
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| Clowning around |
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| Bailey at 4 weeks in 2010 |
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| After a Whitecap hike |
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| Up on Red Hill |