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| The "south" side of the bog |
My guess is that it's a mile around the wooden part of the walk and the access trail is a quarter mile or so, it's a good walk, but it just takes longer than usual because there is so much to look at.
It is, at times, difficult to imagine how anything grows on top of 15 feet of peat, but the plants are there. Stunted spruce, larch, cranberry are the predominant woody plants you'll see, but it's the other stuff that gets my attention. Cotton grass was puffed out all over the place, but hard to photograph, and of course the pitcher plants already starting next years growth, peat moss, thyme; well, you get the idea, there's a lot to look at.
There is another bog just a few mile north of this one, the Alton Bog doesn't have a trail, but I95 was built right across it, something that may not have happened these days. I remember when our son Jon, who had spent his entire life in Metro-Portland, and was an avowed city boy, saw that when we moved up to Medford (Piscataquis County) from South Portland. He was kind of wide-eyed at the sight of it, I told him we were entering the tundra! It's fun to look back sometimes isn't it. As an aside he now is married and lives in Old Orchard Beach, still not a country boy.
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| Linda takes a break at the turn, or half-way point |
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| The geezer in the flesh, takes a break too. |
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| Spruce and Cotton Grass |
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| The Volunteers Cabin-Park Office at trails end. |
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