Pemetic Mountain Loop
This loop includes five trails, or sections of trails. Starting at the
Bubble Rock parking area on the loop road, [I] took the Pemetic Mountain
(Ravine) Trail to the summit, the Pemetic Mountain South Ridge Trail down,
the Pond Trail to Jordan Pond, the Jordan Pond East Side Trail to the foot
of South Bubble, and the Jordan Pond Canoe Carry back to the parking area.
The rise in elevation from the parking area to the summit is 790 feet.
The Pemetic Mountain (Ravine Trail) scrambles through boulders much of the
way, first gradually through small ones, then more steeply among big ones,
then steeper still on granite cliffs. The trail makers used a number of
techniques to help hikers up the slope - stone steps, wooden railings,
ladders, and cribwork. It is not a trail to undertake lightly without sturdy
footwear and a sense of adventure. Passing through woods of spruce, cedar,
ash, birch, and maple, it rises quickly from the loop road to its main
attraction about a third of the way up. A simple post offers a choice
between two routes, RAVINE to the left of LEDGE to the right. I went RAVINE.
I always go RAVINE. Swinging to the left, I found myself walking up a
streambed into a narrow canyon with walls canted sharply to the north, a
seven-rung wooden ladder mounting boulders blocking the upper end eighty
feet ahead. The walls of the ravine grow higher the deeper in you go. Near
the ladder, the right wall extends directly overhead. Scaling the ladder you
come to a second ravine, shorter than the first, but with walls between ten
and twenty feet high, and another cedar ladder leading out the far end.
The trail continues less steeply over a stony treadway, which includes a
flight of forty-nine cribwork steps. Coming to smooth, open ledges
overlooking the Bubbles and the cliffs to the west, you know you are near
the top, having risen much more quickly than you expected to. Passing
several further checkpoints, I descended from the heights to amble through
tall, open woods on a downhill section of the Pond Trail winding through the
gap between Pemetic Mountain and its sidekick, the Triad, to the south. I
ended the hike with a stroll through luminous beech woods along the southern
leg of the Jordan Pond Canoe Carry.
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Champlain Mountain
The Carrige Paths
Around Little Long Pond
Around Jordan Pond
Acadia Mountain loop
Around Mansell Mountain
Little Harbor Brook & Birch Spring Loop
Penobscot Mountain & Jordan Cliffs
Western Mountain Loop
Champlain Mountain Loop
Norumbega Mountain Loop
Around Dorr Mountain
Pemetic Mountain Loop
Beech Mountain
Cadillac Mountain
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