i carried a 22 ounce glass bottle of guiniss the entire Wilderness and then up the mountain. it was 20* on top, but the beer was great. I was instantly drunk. What did other people take up to the top?
Werewolf
What did you bring to the top of Mt. Kat?
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#2
I took a trail map of Baxter State Park so I could go over and bag Hamlin while I was up there.
And by the way, it’s Katahdin, an indian word meaning greatest mountain, not Mt. Katahdin.
Peaks
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#3
Sparklers and a camcorder and one wooped brother-in-law. Wouldn’t that be big big mountain?
Bushwhack
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#4
I carried a ping pong ball that a little girl gave me in Maryland at a shelter. She was with her family who stayed there for the night. She gave it to me because it matched my yellow tent. Her dad let her bring whatever she wanted to the shelter for the night and she chose a little backpack full of various balls. I’m glad she chose one that didn’t weight much. It is sitting here on my desk in front of me.
Two Scoops
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#7
i was outta dough, had spent the last on a kennel in millinocket on the day before when K was closed, so I snuck oinker the mini lab mix in, overnited at K stream w/her in bottom of sleeping bag ( which was a place she loved to get) and then packed her up past the ranger and let her walk up to the iron handholds…then back in the pack til tableland…reverse on the way down…celebration began in earnest after exit of baxter park
tombone
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#8
There used to be a good relationship between hikers and the Rangers at Baxter State Park. Bragging about violating one of their basic rules is good way to continue the deterioration of this relationship. Believe me, I’m well aware that you don’t care.
Blue Jay
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#10
My full pack and a couple of bublegum cigars. We went down the Knife Edge which was an awesome end to the day. Rangers said that it was the 2nd best day of the year (the first best day being the day before). It was about 40-50* on top, bright blue skies, no clouds, and the lakes below… were like “a mirror broken into a thousand fragments, and wildly scattered over the grass, reflecting the full blaze of the sun” as Thoreau so eloquently put it.
Amazing. That day I realized that beyond a doubt, every raindrop (we had over 100 days of rain), every fall, every time I was hungry and had no food, everything that could have possibly been taken in any sort of negative sense, it was ALL worth it.
-Hungry Howie & The New Sushi
GA-ME 2000
Hungry Howie
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#11
A fellow hiker planned to carry up a small backpacking kite and fly it from the summit last year. He got held up by a sprain towards the end, so I don’t know if he did it, or not.
I saw him fly it from another summit, though, and it was a lot of fun. It was great to see the bright colors against a clear blue sky.
Chipper