Appalachian Trail: Mount Katahdin

KAT01

Dist: 4.88 mi	Points: 474	Calories: none
Time: none	Speed: 0.0 mph	Pace: 0:00 / mi

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