Following my northwest arm traverse, I decided to tone it down a fraction and run a Quiet Side traverse on my next day in Acadia. I started this run from Echo Lake and ascended the Beech Cliff trail. This was one of the steepest trails …

In late late September I took a cross-country flight from the Pacific coast of Washington to the Atlantic coast of Maine. I met my parents in Boston and then we traveled up the east seaboard to Mount Desert Island. My mother had wanted to visit …