TOWNSHIP D — Rescuers from the Maine Warden Service and River Valley fire departments Wednesday safely carried an injured Appalachian Trail hiker off Bemis Mountain to a waiting Med-Care Ambulance on the Bemis Track. Four firefighters from Rumford assisted Mexico and Roxbury firefighters and a Med-Care crew who were sent to the 12:44 p.m. call […]
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Botanist attempting to run Appalachian Trail in 55 days arrives in Maine
An ultrarunner and botanist from Hawaii, Nadia “Nate” Stanis, plans to run the entire 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail in 55 days, starting on Tuesday at the trail’s northern end in Maine. “We’ve run into a few snags and are doing some last minute adjustments, but I’m hoping to start the trail early tomorrow morning in Baxter […]
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Rangeley District game warden Reggie Hammond retires after 25 years
DALLAS PLANTATION — Turning off more than two decades of tenacious back-country detective work protecting Maine’s fish and wildlife resources is going to be tough for Reggie Hammond. The Maine game warden who had an uncanny knack for catching lawbreakers in his nearly 400-square-mile Rangeley District, retired on March 31 after a 25-year career. “Pretty […]
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Lloyd Griscom: Orbeton Stream a conservation success to be proud of
As a local landowner with a camp near the Appalachian Trail in Madrid Township, I became aware of a desire to protect the back country area around the headwaters of the Orbeton Stream. I knew this was a special place — my uncle once owned forestland here, and despite living all over the country, this […]
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Farmington woman prepares to hike Appalachian Trail
FARMINGTON — Briana DeSanctis is focused on one large goal for 2015. “I will march forth on March 5,” DeSanctis, 31, of Farmington said, to start a 2,200-mile, solo hike of the Appalachian Trail. That’s an estimated 5 million steps, not counting trips into towns along the way, she said. The trail will take her […]
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“I can’t believe that I walked that far.”
Mike Lecompte’s Facebook posts made hiking the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail look easy. There were Oreo cookie sandwiches, stories about trail magic, blurbs about people he met, videos of mountaintops that many will never climb and, behind an endless growing beard, an always-smiling face, even while hitch hiking in the rain. “I wanted to keep my posts […]
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Maine family’s hike of Appalachian Trail a rarity
BOWDOIN COLLEGE GRANT EAST TOWNSHIP — A Maine family with two young children may make the record books with its 2,160-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. David, Emily, Nathan and Maddy Kallin are expected to complete the end-to-end hike of the trail on Monday, becoming just the 16th family with young children to do so. […]
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Environmental steward working in Weld this summer
WELD — Tumbledown Conservation Alliance is providing funding this summer for an environmental steward in Weld, according to Conrad Heeschen of the Alliance. Nate Bartnick, a former Appalachian Trail through hiker, has been on the job since the end of May and will work through the fall. Bartnick is based at the Mount Blue State […]
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‘Go out and really adventure’: Blind, deaf Winthrop native completes Appalachian Trail hike
MILLINOCKET — Roger Poulin, who is deaf and blind, ascended the summit of Mount Katahdin on Tuesday to likely become the first person with both disabilities to finish the entire 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail. He hiked the rugged footpath, which spans from Georgia to Maine, with the support of Roni Lepore, a support service provider who […]
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Franklin County rescuers hike miles to reach ill South Carolina hiker
WYMAN TOWNSHIP — A South Carolina man became sick Tuesday afternoon while hiking the Appalachian Trail on Crocker Mountain and needed help, Maine Warden Justin Fowlie said Wednesday. Warden Scott Stevens responded to the rescue call along with members of Franklin Search & Rescue and NorthStar EMS medics, who hiked the 5½ miles to where […]