Baxter State Park

Brian and I spent the weekend in Northern Maine in a town called "T6R8" for a friend's wedding. This town - yes, it's so sparsely populated that it doesn't even have a name -borders Baxter State Park so we spent the day after the wedding hiking "Horse Mountain" in the northern part of the park. Unfortunately, it had been raining ALL week and although it miraculously stopped raining for the outdoor ceremony and reception Saturday, it started raining again Sunday morning for our planned hike in the park. We had a good time hiking the 3 mile trail, but will have to visit Baxter again sometime when it's sunny and dry. By the time we made it to the summit of Horse mtn the rain had picked up, and we were pretty well soaked. But maybe we shouldn't complain about being soaked - there was snow on the ground at the summit (you can see a little patch in the photo of Brian with the trail sign) - so we could have been snowed on!

And the trail... well, you could call it a babbling brook too. As you can see from the pictures the trail itself was transformed into a small stream for much of the trail. Needless to say, we were so thrilled to have a dry set of clothes to change into at the car.