Thursday September 9th , South Bog Trail , Rangeley Lake State Park, Maine, About 5 miles and 450 feet elevation gain

 I had found a different somewhat longer hike for us to do on the way between Brian's parents in Vermont and our get-away destination of Bangor Maine.  Unfortunately, All Trails and google maps don't really tell you if the destination is readily accessible in a passenger car.  In this case the trailhead was about 3 miles up a gravel road which quickly deteriorated.  After one nasty sounding but seemingly nor harmful scrape along the bottom of the car, we turned around and proceeded back on our route towards Bangor and found this hike instead.


The hike itself was serviceable.  There was a very long section of narrow single (sometimes single tiny) split logs to go over an area that is prone to being wet.  The only only people we saw on the entire walk were 2 women coming back out, one of whom had slipped into the mud off one of the precarious logs.  Thankfully our journey over the logs was giggles and a close call maybe but nothing harmful.  I'd say the log balancing skill test went for 500 feet or so.  The elevation gain was almost all in a single sizable grind up the side of a hill.  Most of the trail was close in deeply forested and dark.  The trail ended at a point jutting out into the beautiful lake.  If this had been my first choice hike I'd have been more excited by it all because it really was a nice trail but I was kind of annoyed by not making it to my first choice pick and scraping the car on a rock.










Location: Rangeley Lake State Park, 1 State Park Rd, Rangeley, ME 04970, USA

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