Day 9: Treacherous Hole and Great Foodz

We started the day with breakfast burritos.  Jon made them at home with potatoes and bacon cooked in.  They were delicious but that turned out to be the wrong choice for breakfast as it was pretty salty...wrong choice for treacherous hike! 

After breakfast and morning coffee, we spent some time planning our dinner and figuring out ingredients, then we picked the trail of the day to hike.  We narrowed it down to 3 choices.  Since we were feeling pretty good about the Beehive hike we did yesterday, we picked "Jordan Cliffs".  The trail starts from the tourist, fatty Mecca of Acadia, Jordan Pond.  We decided to bypass all of the easy trails and go to the "strenuous" Cliffs trail.  It was listed as technically very difficult, but only 4.2 miles so we went for it.

We packed sandwiches, treats, and 2 water bottles, same as yesterday with the Beehive.  The Cliffs were gorgeous.  Highly technical, steep drop offs, that made you crawl on hands and knees in spots and climb vertically on iron bars secured into the granite rock faces.  Definitely not for the faint of heart.  We saw 4 people on the trail, compared to 50-75 yesterday at the Hive.  We hiked and hiked and we realized this was not a 4.2 mile hike.  Not round trip anyway.  It was 4.2 miles one way, almost straight up!  We ran out of water after about 3.5 miles.  The trail did not take us back to Jordan Pond city of air condition and tourist crap.  The total round trip was more like 7.2 miles.  We pressed on, taking long breaks in the sun to look at gorgeous views.  When we started to see more people, especially people on the trail in flip flops, we knew we were going to make it. 4.5 hours later, we made it back to the pond house.  We had water on the motorcycle, ate lunch, and headed for dinner ingredients.  

We were exhausted!!  Gorgeous day of sunny weather today,70 degrees with low humidity, just what we needed coming from Charleston August summer heat and humidity!  This is a great place and it would easy to come back again.

Tonight we are cooking lobster pasta with cream sauce.  Pretty excited for that.  Tomorrow we are thinking Belgian style mussels and bread, but Jon insists we still need daily lobster, so we may try to make lobster cakes.  Like crab cakes, only with lobster.

Lots of good pictures today to post, a great adventure for us, and really good homemade food again for dinner.  With no schedule or anything "to do", this is a great vacation!!!