Date Night away with a 9 mile hike at Gulf Hagas

My Hubby and I have wanted to hike Gulf Hagas for a long time.  We had to do a lot of planning  do to that fact that the kids could not come along because it would have been too long of a hike for them.  So we set a date and fallowed through.  In our original plans we where going to camp. But do to the rain we ended up staying in Dexter at the Brewster Inn. It was a nice inexpensive place to stay.  Breakfast was included so that was one less thing we had to worry about in the morning.  We still had to drive another hour to get the Katahdin Iron works where Gulf Hagas is located. We hit the trail around 10am and finished it in 6 hours 20 minutes.

The Furnace was a lot bigger then I had imagined it

Head of Gulf Hagas

Stairs Falls

Billing Falls

Lot's of bridges on the trail just like the one I am standing on

A cute little falls we found climbing down to Buttermilk Falls

Yes he had to make me nervous on this hike too.

foot Print of a Moose

Lower Falls of Screw Auger

We took a nice cold dip in the lower falls of screw Auger after a nice lunch on a Sand Bar below this swimming hole

The water was very cold

The one everyone goes to see Screw Auger Falls

We took the Head of Gulf Hagas Trail to the Rim Trail.  So we saw Screw Auger at end of our hike before we turned around to head back to the car 

Most People take the Main trail and if you do you will see Screw Auger falls first.

We wanted to save the best for last