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5 ways to enjoy the outdoors close to home

Fit Maine Fit Maine March 26, 2019
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Fit Maine March 26, 2019
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Now there's a happy pumpkinheaded hiker! Just look Now there's a happy pumpkinheaded hiker! Just look at the smile on my squash! 360 degrees of the finest scenery, and maybe a costume change or two, on Goose Eye in Newry. . Photo by the hikerific and hilarious @kbeverleywaters . #hiking #maine #207 #mainehiking #outdoors #idocoolshitinmaine #maineismygym #halloween
Day 2 on the Down East Sunrise Trail. Water views, Day 2 on the Down East Sunrise Trail. Water views, fall colors, blue skies, perfect clouds. That first mile out of Machias was bumpy on our sore rear ends, but we were rewarded with sunshine, packs of turkeys, moose tracks, and a scenic snack spot to eat the cookies Heather bought that morning. A 2-day total of 87-ish miles complete! . #maine #207 #downeastsunrisetrail #maineismygym #idocoolshitinmaine #biking #outdoors #maineadventure
Day 1: Down East Sunrise Trail. 60 miles from Ells Day 1: Down East Sunrise Trail. 60 miles from Ellsworth to Machias. We saw turkeys and goats and deer - a pomeranian even greeted us in our motel room before we left. Hints of fall on the trees, cool air, bridge crossings, and grand company. Also we are sore all over! @heather_steeves @meow_garitas #sunrisetrail #downeast #biking #trailride #maine #207 #outdoors #maineismygym #idocoolshitinmaine
HATS! SWEATSHIRTS! ICE CREAM! Find "Maine is my gy HATS! SWEATSHIRTS! ICE CREAM! Find "Maine is my gym" apparel and a stand-out dessert called The Unlawful Waffle at @thesacoscoop in Saco! Because outdoor adventure followed by two scoops of ice cream is a fine way to spend the day. . There are winter hats, women's tanks, unisex shirts, truckers hats, and hooded sweatshirts for sale at The Saco Scoop, amid other cool Maine-centric items (including some sweet wooden bowls made at Maine State Prison - you could fit a lot of ice cream in those)! . Thanks to Rob for spreading the Maine is my gym love - and giving those sweatshirts a place to shine. They weren't loving living in a bin under my bed. . Also: The Awful Waffle is a dream come true. . Stop in to The Saco Scoop! . #maineismygym #sacomaine #icecream #outdoors #maineadventure
Let the masses swerve their cars onto the shoulder Let the masses swerve their cars onto the shoulders of Maine’s scenic byways to fawn over the foliage. You’ll take in the colors from a canoe. . Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Old Town offers guided canoe trips on Pushaw Stream all season. In the fall, the tours include leaf-peeing excursions as well as sunset and full moon tours, where you can scout for wildlife as the sun goes down and the moon comes up over the remarkable colors of autumn.  . Founded in 1965 by Oliver Larouche, Hirundo Wildlife Refuge was expanded from his family’s three-acre camp into a 2,400-acre nature preserve. Oliver and his wife June developed a partnership with the University of Maine (the land was deeded to the university in 1983), and they funded research on fish, birds, and mammals, turning Hirundo a living laboratory. . The refuge is open to the public for hiking and canoeing on Pushaw Stream. Access to the trails and the canoes is free, although donations are very much appreciated. And fall paddles are something extra special. . Canoes, paddles, and PFDs are provided for all tours, as is a knowledgeable guide who’ll lead the group up Pushaw Stream and learn you all sorts of flora and fauna.  . Register for an upcoming guided paddle - leaf peeping, sunset, or full moon - at hirundomaine.org. Read more about the paddles in this week's @portland_phoenix . 📷 taken a few summers back, but just imagine that scenery brightened by reds, yellows, and oranges. Stunnin'! . #maine #canoeing #paddling #hirundo #wildliferefuge #207 #outdoors
SANDWICH MOUNTAIN. Mushrooms, glacial erratics, ri SANDWICH MOUNTAIN. Mushrooms, glacial erratics, river crossing, hints of fall, and plenty o' wind. @troberge09 #nh #hiking #fall #outdoors
GUN SAFETY + DON'T EAT THE BERRIES FROM A DOLL'S E GUN SAFETY + DON'T EAT THE BERRIES FROM A DOLL'S EYE PLANT. Even if they look alien but also kind of enticing. You will die. (Not you, birds, you're fine.) . We learned a whole lot at @bryantpond4hcamp during the fall #bow - from tracking and wilderness survival to riflery, shotgun, fly fishing, and map and compass. . The instructors were a wealth of knowledge, as always, and I gained a host of useful info about what you can and cannot eat in the Maine woods (and yea, maybe made a cannibalism joke that led to a discussion about how some people can't eat people). . It was a stunner of a day at Bryant Pond Camp - fall colors starting to spread in the tree and learning was in the air. . Becoming an Outdoors Woman courses for winter will be coming up soon, so get on those! . #maine #outdoors #207 #learning #becominganoutdoorswoman #foraging #riflery
WINE AT THE NINE. We hit a few balls at @sunsetrid WINE AT THE NINE. We hit a few balls at @sunsetridgegolf last week! I'm not saying we hit them well or far or in the direction we'd intended, but we had a grand time anyway, thanks to the welcoming company. As a golfing noob, I admit to being more interested in the social time and golf cart cruising than perfecting my game, but these weekly Wednesday Wine at the Nines are welcoming to all women who golf, whether you've been playing for years or, like @sketchyzetchy, have never touched a club in your life. It's 20 bucks to join in, which includes a drink, some light instruction, and excellent company. You might even get to watch @johnnyjohnston.golf send a ball off into space, which he does with such ease it boggles the mind. Wine at the Nine continues into the fall. It's wonderfully informal and everyone is super friendly. Call Sunset Ridge to let 'em know you're coming. #maine #207 #golfing #wineatthenine #happyhour #golf #learning #idocoolshitinmaine
Stunner of a capture by @waynesboreaux at Ferry B Stunner of a capture by @waynesboreaux at Ferry Beach in Scarborough a couple weeks back. Look at the light! Those clouds! That super-rad paddler who is both awesome and humble! 😂 #maine #207 #sup #paddleboarding #idocoolshitinmaine #maineismygym
SUMMIT, SKULLS + SCAT. Hikers who regularly go int SUMMIT, SKULLS + SCAT. Hikers who regularly go into the woods on purpose already know the positive influence a crowd of trees can have on our psyches. Or how cool we feel when a dragonfly deigns to rest on our arm (it chose us because we’re special). Or the triumph that arrives with every summit reached, every scenic outlook savored. . But to be able to name the trees, know the life cycle of that dragonfly, the history of the land, and maybe even the source of that scat you spotted on the trail? Well that just makes you feel at one with the wilderness. Or at least kinda marvelous and smart. . That’s why I totally dig Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary in Elliotsville Township. There’s a pretty rockin’ hike up Borestone Mountain and a small nature center chock full of outdoor education—from animal ID to insect life cycles, rocks and leaves and skulls and a selection of scat common to the area. (It’s fake, but so wonderfully lifelike.) . You’ll enjoy some splendid time on the trail and hike away with renewed appreciation for tree bark, skull shapes, and animal poo. . Read more about it in this week's @portland_phoenix . #maine #hiking #207 #summer #maineadventure #scat #poop #hikemaine #maineismygym #idocoolshitinmaine
Not bad for a second-time SUPer! The sunset did Not bad for a second-time SUPer! The sunset did pretty okay, too! @waynesboreaux #maine #sup #sunset #paddleboarding #summer #207 #maineadventure #maineismygym #idocoolshitinmaine
ICE CAVES. Sometimes a pile of rocks is just a pil ICE CAVES. Sometimes a pile of rocks is just a pile of rocks. But sometimes, if those rocks are big enough and they’re heaped together just so, they become cool caves we can climb around in. The Debsconeag Ice Caves are like that. Stationed inside the Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area, just south of Baxter State Park, these caves were made by glaciers during the Ice Age. Maybe the glaciers were in a rush (as much as any glacier can rush), elbowing their way through a crowd of boulders, not realizing the caves they were creating along the way. Maybe the glaciers thought caves were neat and built them on purpose, thoughtfully stacking gigantic rocks one on top of another in the same way we humans build houses of cards. It’s tough to tell.  Either way, caves like these are known as talus caves—open spaces created when large rocks and boulders decide to pile on each other, perhaps after a game-winning touchdown—and they’re different from caves that are formed by crashing waves, wind, ground water, or lava.  While the glaciers that dropped the rocks that created the Debsconeag Ice Caves melted long ago, you can still find plenty of ice inside the caves, even well into summer. In late spring, the caves are sometimes so icy, it’s tough to even get inside. That’s generally not a problem in August, when summer heat melts most of the accumulated ice, but it’s still a cool spot to explore, in every sense of the word. Read more about it in this week's @portland_phoenix #icecaves #maine #exploringmaine #207 #maineadventure #idocoolshitinmaine #caves #hiking #maineismygym
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