Vacation training #2: leg exercise.

In keeping with my on-going theme of not actually writing about training on a bike (Honestly forty mile training rides in the cancer chariot’s saddle are fairly uninteresting…. “Hey look it’s a squirrel!”), I’m going to let you in on a great Mt. Desert Island, Maine secret. The Perpendicular Trail on Mansell Mt. Great opportunity to get some good views, get some good hiking, and test your hyperventilation skills. It’s actually a perfect opportunity for quad and calf conditioning, because it’s straight up a mountain. Seriously. Its takes an almost direct route from the base of the mountain perpendicularly up to the summit. Follow the catchy trail name, now? Johnny Rockefeller figured it was a good use of manpower to enlist plebeians to quarry, shape, and place 1,000 granite steps on the side of an understated mountain. Good for him, and me, that he didn’t have anything better to do with his money. 950' of elevation in 1 mile. That's nearly 80 degrees. Straight up.

Base                                                                           Mid trail                                                                               Summit

This guy actually mapped the hike and denoted where his pictures were taken. Pretty nifty. I don't know who he, or Anna is, but technology lets me steal his link off the interweb.

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