Mark your calendar and register for the 2020 AMC Maine Chapter Annual Meeting November 14, 2020 at 6 PM. This year’s meeting will be an online Zoom meeting due to COVID-19 pandemic considerations. There is no cost to attend. In…
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Mark your calendar and register for the 2020 AMC Maine Chapter Annual Meeting November 14, 2020 at 6 PM. This year’s meeting will be an online Zoom meeting due to COVID-19 pandemic considerations. There is no cost to attend. In…
Show us your best outdoors You! The AMC Maine Chapter would like to see your photos of you and/or others engaged in outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, trail or conservation work. Up to three photos are allowed per…
By Eliza Townsend, Maine Conservation Policy Director The Maine legislature adjourned in March as the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak became clear. At that time, there was an expectation that lawmakers would return to address unfinished business, including a bond…
I joined the AMC ExCom for a variety of reasons. Most bigly, I have a lifetime of benefiting from the AMC. I use the River Guide on the regular, but the combination of Quiet Water and my Maine Atlas &…
From the pages of the AMC Maine Mountain Guide, 11th ed., a treasure trove of 300 mountains, 625 trails and 1,500 miles of hiking… Bald Bluff Mtn., Amherst Mountains Community Forest, Amherst, p. 510 Bald Ledge, Francis Small Heritage Trust,…
By Carey Kish, editor, AMC Maine Mountain Guide With 17.7 million acres of woods cloaking 89% of Maine’s total land area, our state is the most heavily forested in the United States. As such, we hikers are accustomed to ambling…
By Kristen Grant As a child growing up in rural Connecticut, my favorite summer activity was to drag my sleeping bag out to one of my Dad’s fields and sleep under the stars. No tent for me in those days,…
The Maine Chapter Annual Report was distributed at the Chapter Annual Meeting. You can view a full color copy of the report here. Some highlights of the Report: This year, 21 Outings Leaders volunteered over 700 hours to lead more than 450…
The Chapter was surprised and pleased to receive a donation for $3,040 from the Kittery Trading Post in August. Kittery Trading Post is a frequent donor to the Chapter. Since 2015, its donations to the Maine Chapter have totaled $10,121.…
The Maine Island Trail Association (MITA) presented their 2019 Partnership Award to the Appalachian Mountain Club at MITA’s annual meeting in Belfast on August 15. This award was in recognition of the recent addition of AMC’s Knubble Bay Camp and…
As I was trying to think of something to write for this newsletter, it struck me that the theme for the Maine Chapter this summer has been “Have Fun on the Water.” AMC started as a hiking club but of…
Come join the Southeastern Massachusetts Chapter at AMC Fall Gathering 2019, October 18-20th on Cape Cod. As always, you’ll have a chance to meet, socialize, and share ideas with members from AMC chapters up and down the East Coast. And…