Appalachian Trail: Mount Katahdin

KAT01

Distance: 4.88 mi	Points: 474	Calories: none
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KAT001

Location: 45.886780, -68.999687
Head NE on Hunt Trail/AT from Katahdin Stream Campground to trailhead register (check weather @ ranger station). Look NE to serrated ramparts of Katahdin

KAT002

Location: 45.893757, -68.989960
Moderate ascent following streambed

KAT003

Location: 45.895935, -68.984467
Bear R @ Y (still AT). In 250 ft., cross bridge

KAT004

Location: 45.895565, -68.983330
Bear R @ Y (still AT). In 250 ft., cross bridge

KAT005

Location: 45.895599, -68.968246
Pass stream; small grotto just below treeline

KAT006

Location: 45.897884, -68.956566
AT enters The Gateway, a difficult section requiring steep scrambling over jumbled piles of rock with rebar handholds

KAT007

Location: 45.900017, -68.946785
Tundralike Tableland: this boulder field was deposited by the glacier that lopped off the mountain's top

KAT008

Location: 45.898232, -68.936584
Straight @ 4-way on AT; pass Thoreau Spring; precipitous drops of Witherle Ravine to N

KAT009

Location: 45.904449, -68.921417
Baxter Peak (5,267 ft.): sign marks N terminus of AT and highest point in ME; on fog-free days, see across hundreds of lakes set among spruce and fir; continue E

KAT010

Location: 45.902935, -68.917969
Head SE on slim ridge to South Peak (Note: Katahdin has three summits: Baxter, South, and Chimney Peaks)

KAT011

Location: 45.902153, -68.916725
South Peak (5,240 ft.): The Knife Edge extends NE to Pamola, a dome outcrop believed by Abenakis to hold Big K's moody, weather-controlling deity; backtrack on AT to return

Katahdin Ascent

Location: 45.898323, -68.952927
©Jeff Chow

Mt. Katahdin

Location: 45.882133, -69.030281
Katahdin from the west side of Daicey Pond. ©Jeff Chow

Mt. Katahdin from Baxter State Park

Location: 45.836418, -68.966026
©Jeff Chow

The Knife Edge

Location: 45.902027, -68.914253
©Jeff Chow