My very very very favorite hike is not too strenuous..it is actually easy to moderate difficulty. Some steep inclines, a bit of scrambling over rocks, but all in all, not too bad. The view at the stop is so spectacular that you are excited as the path steepens and becomes rocky..you know you are getting close.
First..a bit of background...
Acadia National Park terrain was formed by glaciers thousands and thousands of years ago; these glaciers dumped "rocks" that became compressed into bedrock that became mountains.
(the National Park service owns all the land on Mt Desert Island that is green in the map below)
The island that contains most of Acadia National Park
was named Mount Desert Island, not because it is desert-like,
but because Samuel Champlain named it "Isles des Monts Desert,"as he sailed by the island in 1604.
[So how do you say Mount Desert Island? Most people pronounce it like "dessert"]
"Champlain named it with the accent on the last syllable, as it is in the French language. He wasn't implying that it was a desert. The phrase means "island of barren mountains." That's why it's pronounced both as it is spelled and as the French meaning would be pronounced (dessert)."
[from nps.gov]
Ok, so now that I have bored you all to tears, let's get back to some photos, right?
2 comments:
this was one of my favorite hikes too! i think maybe the beehive is my favorite of all though :)
gorgeous photos! i must get up there. you make this sound like the best place to visit in the whole world =] so i will.
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