Shelters where he thought he could catch a good night’s sleep while listening to the sounds of nature were instead filled with trash, graffiti and people who seemed more interested in partying all night, said Spencer, who finished the entire trail last month in just 99 days. “I wanted the solitude. I wanted to experience […]
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Ill hiker rescued from AT in Franklin County
TOWNSHIP E — A Connecticut man was recovering Friday after being rescued from the Appalachian Trail near Rangeley, according to Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service. William Appleby, 56, of Clinton, Conn., was suffering severe abdominal pain, possibly caused by food poisoning, MacDonald said, and used a hand-held locator beacon to transmit an emergency signal. […]
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Hebron man rescued on Appalachian Trail, carried out 1.5 miles
DEAD RIVER TOWNSHIP — Maine game wardens and rescue officials from around western Maine carried a 64-year-old Hebron man 1.5 miles out of the woods on Wednesday after he was injured hiking the Appalachian Trail in Somerset County. Cpl. John MacDonald said in a news release that John Jutras injured his knee and dislocated his […]
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Appalachian Trail hiker with broken ankle recovering at CMMC
TOWNSHIP D — An Appalachian Trail hiker from Texas used a global satellite communication and tracking device to help rescuers find him Wednesday after he injured his leg and ankle less than two miles from Route 17 at Height of Land. Charles Smith, 69, of Plano, Texas, was descending Bemis Mountain on the trail near […]
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Appalachian Trail hiker rescued in northern Franklin County
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 […]