Beeched

The Beech Mountain hike (West Ridge to South Ridge to Valley) is three hikes in one — a lakeside stroll, a steep, sunny ascent with sudden blue-sky vistas of the lake and the coast and the Cranberry Isles, and a descent through mossy, sun-dappled woods like something out of Tolkien. (See above — one of my favorite photos from the trip. It looks more like a fantasy book cover than a photograph, to me.) On the bald summit is an old fire tower (previously posted here), from which you can see the whole island.

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The whole set is here, and all my Acadia photos will eventually end up here.