{"id":103,"date":"2018-07-21T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:34:18","slug":"at1-wednesday-july-11-ksc-to-katahdin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/at1-wednesday-july-11-ksc-to-katahdin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Katahdin to Katahdin Stream Campground, 5 mi (AT 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 11th, 2018, Maine<\/p>\n

We departed the AT Lodge and Ole Man drive us to Baxter State Park to summit Mt Katahdin. <\/p>\n

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Ole Man\u2019s shuttle to Baxter State Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because Katahdin is typically the end point for most AT thru hikers, it did seem a bit strange to be doing it first. But it is the start point for us heading southbound (SOBOs).<\/p>\n

We stopped at the small ranger station, got checked in and registered to stay in Katahdin Stream Campground (KSC) that night. Baxter is the one place on the AT you\u2019re not allowed to stay without a camp site. I had reserved a tent site some time back that would accommodate 6 people. There were four other guys on the same day who weren\u2019t able to get reservations. So we all planned stayed at my site. <\/p>\n

The ranger station had loaner day packs so hikers don\u2019t have to carry full packs. I chose the most colorful day pack in the bin and loaded up snacks, water, warm jacket, headlamp, and small first aid kit. <\/p>\n

At 8am we started off on the Hunt Trail which is the official Appalachian Trail: in addition to myself, our trail group was Troop Leader, Pigweed, and That Guy. Another hiker called Goldie was also sharing my site but his father had dropped him off and he was spending some time with him before heading up. <\/p>\n

It was a steady ascent below tree line for about two hours. Once the trees started to thin out the boulder scrambling started. <\/p>\n

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Hunt Trail looking back<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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About another two hours of climbing we reached the plateau and could see the summit about a half mile further and another small climb. <\/p>\n

There was a small group already at the top. We rested, ate lunch, and took a few pictures. By the time we finished nearly everyone had already started down.<\/p>\n

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Lunch break at summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We decided to take the Abol trail down. It was quite a long descent and took us nearly five hours. <\/p>\n

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Abol Trail down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Abol Trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was quite tired when we reached the camp site. I set up camp, had a quick dinner, and went straight to sleep. It was a perfect weather day and seemed like a fantastic first day on the trail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 11th, 2018, Maine We departed the AT Lodge and Ole Man drive us to Baxter State Park to summit Mt Katahdin. Because Katahdin is typically the end point for most AT thru hikers, it did seem a bit strange to be doing it first. But it is the start point for us heading southbound … Continue reading Mt. Katahdin to Katahdin Stream Campground, 5 mi (AT 5)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail-sobo-2018-19","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}