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Acadia National Park, Maine

	Acadia is beautiful, and one of Mike’s favorite national parks thus far.  To get there, we drove for about 6 hours, from Montreal, through Eastern Canada, Northern Vermont and New Hampshire, and Western Maine.  We spent the night at Troll Valley Campground somewhere along the way, just inside of Maine, and the next day, made the rest of the journey to the Northeaster tip of Maine . . . to Acadia National Park.  Although it rained that night, and threatened to rain the next day, we managed to stay dry, and it kind of added to the experience (but we are sure Acadia is beautiful on clear days too).  

The low hanging fog (attested to by the fog horns sounding repeatedly off the coast) literally enveloped us, our car, and the entire park, allowing us to see only a few feet in front of us as we drove through Acadia NP on Park Loop Drive.  After a brief stop at the visitor center and some photos at Sand Beach (where the water was rumored to be 42 degrees, the waves crashed against the shore, and the Sea Stacks emerged every now and then for a beautiful shot through the dense fog), we went on this amazing 2 ½ hour hike up the Precipice Trail to the top of Mt. Champlain, taking a different (and much more sure footed) route on the way down.  

We spent the first hour of the hike scrambling over and under big huge boulders, and up iron rung ladders affixed to the side of the mountain, with huge drops below us, evidenced only by the tips of the trees poking their heads through the fog.  In some ways, it may have been a good thing we could not see more than a few feet in front and behind us, as we could not see how far we would have fallen through the trees when we looked down.  Instead, we saw only fog, giving the trail this eerie like quality.  At times, it felt like we were in the Lord of the Rings or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.  The one downside to this otherwise spectacular hike was that we did not have the nearly 360 view we might have otherwise had of the island and sea that is Acadia National Park.   Since it is the second most visited park in the country, and since Mike liked it so much, and Maine is so beautiful, we will very likely get back there again on a clear day.
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