
One of a number of waterfalls on the Old Speck trail.

One of a number of waterfalls on the Old Speck trail.

Table Rock on Baldpate Mountain in Grafton Notch provides great views of the notch. Old Speck, Maine’s fourth highest mountain, is immediately across the notch.

Lichen-covered boulders at the summit of Mt. Katahdin in Maine’s Baxter State Park.

Morning in the Sierras from the Alabama Hills area.

Huge granite boulders surround much of the shoreline of Hurd Pond in the Debsconeag Wilderness. Mount Katahdin dominates the landscape in the region. I made this shot from my kayak.

The Jordan Cliffs trail in Acadia provides great views of Jordan Pond directly below and Pemetic Mountain on the eastern side of the pond.

Mount Katahdin is reflected in Kidney Pond early one morning in Maine’s Baxter State Park.

Mount Katahdin from one of the overlooks in the new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

The granite face of South Bubble viewed from the Jordan Cliffs trail today in Acadia National Park. The trail climbs along the exposed cliffs of Penobscot Mountain with views of Pemetic mountain to the east, Jordan Pond, the North and South Bubble, and Otter Cove in the distance.

The Beehive as viewed from Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. A 0.8 mile trail with iron rungs on the exposed cliffs reaches the summit of this 520 foot mountain. It’s not a place for people who are afraid of heights — or widths.