Breakfast was at Jeannie’s: blueberry pancakes, coffee, cranberry juice; 2 fried eggs, homefries, bacon, toast, coffee for R. It was a wet, foggy morning as usual, so after breakfast we wandered around town for a bit, exchanging pants Rich had bought for a better fitting pair and finding moose socks and a hat to purchase. Then we went to the Nature Center parking area at Sieur de Monts Spring, where we hiked in toward the Stratheden Path (which we somehow missed the first time) to the Park Loop Road and then over Kebo Mountain. We enjoyed some sunshine on our walk, but mostly went in and out of heavy fog.

“The sun will be out and the angels will be singing in Bar Harbor … I can hear the Hosannahs now!”

“Poop on People in the Park—Peregrines Have Priority on the Precipice!”

It’s exciting to have the USGS datasheets, because now we know about even more benchmarks we can search for on MDI! The first one we searched for this morning, simply named after its elevation 195.10, is only a U.E., but it’s in an interesting location in the woods at Kebo Valley Golf Course.

Breakfast around 8:00, then checked Cadillac Mountain Sports where R bought shorts. Ride from Duck Brook Bridge to Halfmoon Pond, Breakneck Road to R’s favorite spot where we rested, then tried to ride the rest of the road, crossing many times through the wet “isthmus” but we couldn’t get past a large mucky spot, so we eventually turned back. Then we went down the west side of Eagle Lake to 8, then to 10, then 11, then past Aunt Betty Pond (remember winding roads with lots of wooden bridges that reminded me so much of Roosevelt State Park!), then to our spot on Eagle Lake to rest. When the wind came up, the waves soaked us thoroughly! Rode back, went to Miguel’s for supper, then drove up Cadillac Mountain looking for USGS chiseled marks; R found one on the way down. Then we went into town for the ice cream sampler.