euicho.com » acadia http://euicho.com Sat, 19 May 2012 04:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Beautiful day for a Hike http://euicho.com/2009/beautiful-day-for-a-hike/ http://euicho.com/2009/beautiful-day-for-a-hike/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:53:21 +0000 euicho http://euicho.com/?p=485 Amme and I went hiking today in Acadia, and what a day to go!

We chose to go up the Gorham Mountain trail. It’s listed as a moderate trail, but doesn’t require any climbing. It did get our hearts pumping though!

There was a nice little overlook that we stopped at to catch our breath and take some photos.

Eventually Amme let me know how she felt about the camera being pointed at her, lol.

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When we got to the summit we took a little break to enjoy the beautiful view and how gorgeous the ocean looked.

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We still felt pretty energized so we decided to keep going forward instead of backtracking, continuing on the backside of the Gorham trail.

We met up with the Beehive trail and on the way down, saw some hikes taking a more perilous trail above us. The Beehive trail ends at the Park Loop Road at the entrance to Sand Beach.

Once we got there we hiked a ways back towards the car and had a picnic on the rocks just above the rising tide. We ate bologna (Wunderbar!) sandwiches and then sunbathed for a while before heading back to the car. I was too relaxed to remember to take more photos, but Amme did!

While we were hanging out on the rocks some ballsy seagulls pestered us. After feeding them a while they got even bore brazen and tried to grab our bag of orange and banana peels (which is funny because Amme threw them a piece of orange and they were having none of that!). This photo was snapped while he was about 3 feet from my face.

We drove into downtown Bar Harbor after hiking back to the car and got some huge dark chocolate truffles before heading home. I love hiking days!

PS: See the full album in my photos section, or on flickr, or as a nifty slideshow!

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The two ferrets are Baby and Kitty. They were both adopted from Central Aroostook Ferret Rescue, and yes, they are huge.

       
Riley is the dark cat and Connor is the orange one that loves to sleep in the ferrets litterboxes, wedge his large girth into all-too-small spaces, and will jump into any plastic bag he can fit his head into. Unfortunately this means he gets his head stuck in the handles quite often.

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Anyway, heres a rare personal life update:

I’ve been having a blast in my electronics class. I’m learning all about the stuff my great grandfather loved. I can now see why he did, its so cool.
I just finished rearanging our study yet again. Its a bad habbit really, but I can’t help myself. I never stay satisfied with one layout for very long, as you can see by this site, ever in upheaval. From a design standpoint I’m not sure if thats a good attribute or not, as long as I actually fully implement a layout that is, heh.
Amme, Jess, Zach and I have gone swimming a few times this past week. Zach can’t really swim, but we’ve progressed him from sinking within a few seconds to being able to float on his back indefinately. I’m not a very good teacher, its so intuitive to me because I spend every day of my summers as a child swimming in my grandmother’s pool. We were so lucky. Swimming isn’t nearly as fun as climbing, but it is an amazing workout, great for losing weight!
Zach and I got our hands on some great new rope for a great deal and went urban abseiling a few weeks ago, though its getting too cold to now, bummer. We’ve also all gone to Acadia National Park a few times to go bouldering. Its soooooo much more fun on real rock, and it grips your fingers and shoes so much better than plastic. I also blew my Mad Rock Mugens out so I got a pair of La Sportiva Cobra slip-lasted shoes that give me a bit more support, but less grippy rubber :(

Hmm I’m hungry…

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