{"id":23,"date":"2009-06-11T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-10-25T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:28:53","slug":"katahdin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/katahdin\/","title":{"rendered":"Katahdin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">While Mt. W<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nu865dvg5MM\/SjBn_1PJxCI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/O1_5dw4WQLI\/s1600-h\/Davis_KnifeEdge_1.jpg\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345887104008832034\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 251px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 355px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nu865dvg5MM\/SjBn_1PJxCI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/O1_5dw4WQLI\/s320\/Davis_KnifeEdge_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">ashington (New Hampshire) is the highest peak east of the Mississippi, the terrain of Mt. Katahdin (Maine) is clearly the most challenging &#8220;hiking&#8221; that I have ever seen (excluding technical &#8220;rock climbing&#8221;). Before hiking up to the Knife Edge via the Dudley Trail, I thought perhaps carrying a tripod might be a hinderance, so I left it at camp. In retrospect, this was a prudent choice; the Dudley is more rock climbing than hiking. I am not <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">typically afraid of heights, but this trail gave me the creeps!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><br \/>Atop the Dudley Trail is the infamous Knife Edge between Pamola Peak and Baxter Peak. Having now personally traversed the Knife Edge, I must tell you that words cannot do it justice. It is the most dramatic landscape I have ever seen in the northeast USA; beyond that, I am at a loss for words.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is widely reported that Mt. Washington is home of the world&#8217;s worst weather. Truthfully, many mountains have the same weather; they just don&#8217;t have an observatory at the summit to record the facts. At Katahdin, when the weather turned bad, I left and went home.<\/span><br \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Mt. Washington (New Hampshire) is the highest peak east of the Mississippi, the terrain of Mt. Katahdin (Maine) is clearly the most challenging &#8220;hiking&#8221; that I have ever seen (excluding technical &#8220;rock climbing&#8221;). Before hiking up to the Knife Edge via the Dudley Trail, I thought perhaps carrying a tripod might be a hinderance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,19,54,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-nature","category-newengland","category-photo","category-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}