Climbing Mt Katahdin



At 3:30 pm – 8 hours and 36 minutes after I first filled in the intentions’ register – I completed the penultimate column to show that I’d returned safely. Incidentally, hikers on the Appalachian Trail traditionally use trail names, which is why names like Pumpkin Head, Timex, Chaos, Red knees, Whistler, and Spacey appear in the register! Note, too, how some of the Appalachian Trail through-hikers had done the round trip from the trailhead to the summit of Katahdin and return in only six hours.