"Eberle-Hills-Cop" (Eberle-Hills-Cop)
07/19/2016 at 21:54 • Filed to: None
10
9|
"Eberle-Hills-Cop" (Eberle-Hills-Cop)
07/19/2016 at 21:54 • Filed to: None | 10
| 9 |
Just got home last Sunday from a week long trip through the North Maine Woods. Did roughly 500 miles on dirt roads from Greenville -> Millinocket -> Chain of Ponds -> and finally to Oquossoc to spectate the New England Forest Rally for a couple days. No mechanical issues at all aside from having to fix a puncture at the side of a road. (more impressive for the 1989 “Garbage Montero” you may recognize from some posts around here)
We started by visiting the crash site of a B-52 bomber (crashed in 1963) Really solemn place, still stands as a memorial to the airmen who died in the crash. Unbelievable amount of wreckage still remains over 50 years later.
We next headed into the North Maine Woods proper. “Hedgehog checkpoint” being our entry point. We were headed to Millinocket for the night, just near the northern terminus for the Appalachian Trail, Mount Katahdin.
Day two had us heading up the Golden Road, a large logging dirt highway that connects the eastern Maine area to the Canadian Border. We soon learned it should be called the Fury Road based on how fast those log trucks haul ass. Along the way we stopped to check out Ripogenus gorge, which has the Penobscot river running through it. I had no idea we had this kind of thing here in New England.
Day three was originally planned to be a long haul from Jackman to our final camp in the Wilsons Mills area, but we spent a lot of time exploring the wind farms on the Kibby Mountain range. It’s wild how large those turbines are up close.
(Photo by Brad DeSantis !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )
Our 4th morning was started with a flat tire at camp on the Xterra. Inspection found a nice puncture which needed two plugs to patch, but first some extra psi and a 2 mile trip to the Canadian border just to say we did.
We also ran into our only other big trouble of the trip soon after, an active logging operation on the one accessible road or trail to our destination area forced us to take some paved roads (boo.) Eventually we found a spot to jump back into the woods & finish the day by driving some of the same roads we would be using to spectate the New England Forest Rally at the end of the week.
The detour paid off in the end, because we found probably the best spot for spectating on a stage I’ve seen since I started going to NEFR in 2008.
(Photo by Andrew Pascarella !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )
I’ve been back for 3 days and I can’t wait to get back out and do it again.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Eberle-Hills-Cop
07/19/2016 at 22:44 |
|
I too have visited that B52 crash site. We brought an American flag to hang across the opening of part of the fuselage.
Blind Willy
> Eberle-Hills-Cop
07/20/2016 at 08:15 |
|
What an amazing trip!
I’ve heard of the B-52 crash but didn’t realize there was still debris.
I’m heading up your way in less than 2 weeks, but I’ll be playing more tourist, than explorer. We are renting an SUV to haul around the family, but I’ve talked the wife into cruising the coastal area and hopefully some inland sites as well.
If you see someone with an FJ Cruiser themed T-Shirt around the southern coastal towns, that’s probably me, HA
|
Eberle-Hills-Cop
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/20/2016 at 09:09 |
|
I couldn’t believe how much stuff was still there, or that one of the crew survived the ejection without a parachute deploying.
|
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Eberle-Hills-Cop
07/20/2016 at 09:54 |
|
Yeah, kind of crazy how it all played out. Although the amount of crashed planes in the North Woods is ridiculous, one of my buddies actually had a blowout because of plane wreckage.
Still weren’t able to track down which plan it was but here is part of one of the serial numbers we found on it. Did you get to head up to the two abandoned locomotives?
|
Eberle-Hills-Cop
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/20/2016 at 10:01 |
|
No, we didn’t get to the trains. They were a little further north than we were heading this time. But maybe next trip!
Tim
> Eberle-Hills-Cop
07/20/2016 at 10:11 |
|
Awesome. Great looking area. The wreckage is amazing. Can’t believe how much is there. You’d think it would all be looted.
And rally, because rally. Love it!
|
Tim
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/20/2016 at 10:11 |
|
What!!!!??? Abandoned trains in the forest? It’s like a dream. I want to go, I need to go there.
|
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Tim
07/20/2016 at 10:28 |
|
Yeah, they’re about a good two miles into the forrest so it makes for a nice hike, just have to watch out for the bears though.
Andrew Pascarella
> Blind Willy
07/21/2016 at 10:42 |
|
The B-52 site is an easy day trip with a family. 5 min hike from a well maintained road.