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To: BenLurkin

There are mountains in Maine?
Well, I declare!


7 posted on 03/21/2021 1:51:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

As a Mainer, your comment is pretty insulting.

Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, at 1,530 feet (466 meters), is the highest point along the North Atlantic seaboard and the first place to view sunrise in the United States from October 7 through March 6. It is one of over 20 mountains on Mount Desert Island (MDI), Maine that were pushed up by earth’s tectonic and volcanic forces millions of years ago. Were it not for the once enormous glaciers that sheared off their tops, they would be even higher than what we see today. You can easily see the results of this on a smaller scale by viewing the slopes on the Porcupine Islands in the distance. The North side is on the left and the steeper slope, or the down side, is on the right east side. The glaciers crept across the land here from the left to the right (in a southerly direction) and stretched out to sea as far as 400 miles (644 kilometers)!


17 posted on 03/21/2021 3:45:14 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: lee martell

Yes, there are mountains in Maine. Katahdin would be the biggest. A more grueling 1-day round trip you’ll likely not find on the east coast.


20 posted on 03/21/2021 5:36:29 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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