Tag: maine

  • Preserving Wilderness Charm: The Restoration of Daicey Pond Cabins

    Preserving Wilderness Charm: The Restoration of Daicey Pond Cabins

    A Year of Careful Conservation Beginning in May 2024, Baxter State Park embarked on an ambitious restoration effort to repair and preserve the historic cabins at Daicey Pond. To allow this work to proceed efficiently, the campground was closed to overnight guests from May 2024 through April 2025  . Restoration, Not Renovation This project wasn’t…

  • The Cabins At Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park

    The Cabins At Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park

    Note that Daicey Pond will be closed for Cabin renovations for the 2024-2025 season. Access to the lake for day activities are still expected. More can be found here. Baxter State Park I grew up only 2 hours from this state park, albeit across the Canadian border, but I would look out the window as…

  • Dutch Oven Chili and Stowaway IPA

    Here’s a great base chili that you can augment to your taste/heat. We were camping in Maine and decided that this would provide a great meal. This will feed up to 6 people and cost a little over 20$ to gather all of the groceries.

  • Allagash White – Craft Beer In The Woods

    We reviewed Allagash White while out on a camping trip in Maine. This being one of the standard offerings, meaning that you can find this within the state fairly easy at a store or restaurant. The style is a Witbier, or Belgian Wheat beer. 5% ABV.

  • Sentinel Mountain – Baxter State Park

    We spent three nights at Baxter State Park, once again camping at the cabins at Daicey Pond. Since this year, we shedded a lot of dead weight this year, so we decided to attack  the nearest summit from camp – Sentinel Mountain. We opted to park at the day-use lot at Kidney Pond, signed in…

  • Shipyard – Smashed Blueberry

    Shipyard – Smashed Blueberry

    Quick review of Shipyard smashed blueberry. This was a limited offering from NSLC right after the beerfest in august.

  • Sea Dog Brewing – Wild Blueberry Wheat

    Sea Dog Brewing – Wild Blueberry Wheat

    We brought back a few cans of year around available Sea Dog Blueberry Wheat Beer from Topsham Maine when we went for our Katahdin adventure.

  • Baxter Brewing – Pamola Xtra Pale Ale

    Baxter Brewing – Pamola Xtra Pale Ale

    We brought back from our trip in Maine, from Baxter Brewing company – Pamola Xtra Pale Ale. Pamola is one of the peaks found at Baxter State park. We hoped this would taste as good as when we were in the backwoods.