Route: Flagstaff Lake - Rt 4 Peaks Traverse (ME)

Submitted by ceastman on Sun, 09/20/2020 - 06:27am
Location
Maine, US
Distance
52.61 mi
Vertical Gain
19,911 ft
Description

This starts at the bottom of Little Bigelow at Flagstaff Lake on the AT and ends at Rt 4 in Rageley at the AT parking lot. You will hit every Peak along the way.

First, you go up Little Bigelow and you make your way to Averey Peak, West Peak, the South Horn, and take the side trail to the North Horn. From there you stay on the AT and descent down to Rt 27 AT parking lot.

You leave there and head up the AT over North Crocker and over to South Crocker. From South Crocker, you take an unmaintained trail to Reddington and then back to South Crocker. You then continue on the AT down to the Caribou Pond Rd.

From there you continue on the AT up Sugarloaf where you take a side trail to the peak. You continue to Spaulding and take another side trail to the peak. You then continue over to the Mt Abraham side trail and do the out and back to the AT.

Once back to the AT you stay on it all the way to Rangeley. You will go over Loan Mountain, Orbiton stream, Poplar Ridge, Saddleback Jr, the Horn, and Saddleback. Once you summit Saddleback you have a 6 mile run down the AT to the finish.

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Water Stops.

Spring .25 miles down from Avery peak.

Soring .5 miles down from the South Horn

Spring 4 miles up North Crocker. There's no box on this one. Usually, hikers have paced birch bark to make it easier to get the water.

Carrabassett river at the bottom of Sugarloaf

Spring .25 miles from Sugarloaf peak.

Spring at Spaulding campground.

Orbiton stream at the bottom of Loan Mountain just before Poplar Ridge/Saddleback Jr climb

Spring at the campsite before Saddeback Jr peak.

Stream with 3 miles to go.