>>1091203Katahdin up the cathedral trail in May. I've hiked the John Muir, climbed fourteeners in Colorado but fuck me that piece of shit 6000 foot mountain in bumfuck Maine got me.
>Mud and swarms of mosquitoes for the first 4 miles>straight up the mountain face, boulder scramble on mossy wet rocks for two miles, damn near snap my shit up multiple times>get to the top sometime before noon, decide against going down cathedral trail to avoid bouldering>TOO BAD NIGGA IT'S ALL BOULDERS>the """""gentler""""" trail is about 10 miles, basically the same slippery boulder-covered mess, just slightly less steep and twice as long>hiking bro twists his ankle, bandage it up, brace it, but the going is agonizingly slow>as the sun starts hanging low, the last four miles greet us with even more mosquitoes and some rainNever doing that again. I can see why a lot of AT hikers give up at the last twenty miles, Katahdin is an absolute bitch of a mountain. Still super beautiful though - maybe a trail other than Cathedrals might actually be fun