DAILY BULLDOG • March 15, 2025
I close out a series of winter articles with this account of a Baxter State Park ski trek of nearly 20 miles, hauling a home-rigged pulk (pull) sled into the west-lying ponds region of the Park. In recent years, a good friend and I have made annual winter treks to Baxter, and to the neighboring Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In winter, in lesser-traveled sections of the park, we usually see more wildlife than people. Doing so, we have seen weather extremes – deep cold, high winds, hard rain, and thickly falling snow, but also cloudless skies and even shirt-sleeve temperatures. We would have a taste of that variety on this trek, except for the shirt-sleeves. ~ Doug Dunlap