{"id":3037,"date":"2021-12-05T07:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:25:18","slug":"elephant-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/elephant-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was the start of a week-long peak bagging holiday in the upper parts of Maine. It’s a summit, set apart from others, seemingly not connected by any ridge and only accessible by a bushwhack. But, it’s on the list of the New England highest hundred, so we figured we’d give it a go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to 4000footers.com<\/a>, it’s a short hike, around 2.5mi round trip, and with only a modest elevation gain – a bit over 1,100 ft. AND, it was on the way to our destination in the Rangely region, so it make for an easy stopping off point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what the tipping point is between a herd path and a bushwhack, this one was a bit more bushy and less herdy, still manageable as can be seen from the few photos. <\/p>\n\n\n

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and nothing much in the way of views and all.<\/p>\n\n\n

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View of the South Arm lake in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In the end, still a nice short leg-stretcher after hours in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the start of a week-long peak bagging holiday in the upper parts of Maine. It’s a summit, set apart from others, seemingly not connected by any ridge and only accessible by a bushwhack. But, it’s on the list of the New England highest hundred, so we figured we’d give it a go. According to 4000footers.com, it’s a short hike, around 2.5mi round trip, and with only a modest elevation gain – a bit over 1,100 ft. AND, itRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}