Mount Katahdin

of anything except for finishing.

I can't think of anything but Mount Katahdin.

And I was five months away from that point.

Like I, I wanted to be mentally strong.

There's no exposure on the AT.

The closest you probably come is Katahdin.

But then if you get someone who's hiked Katahdin and truly believes that that is technical mountaineering, and then we'll come out to somewhere in Colorado and we'll try to do a technical mountain, it's just not the same.

Right.

And one thing that's been the hardest part about my friend Will Dine, absolutely, has been he wasn't on the CDT proper.

And I felt that it was a very kind of Thoreau-vian moment.

You know, Thoreau describes having a similar experience on top of Katahdin.

Um, of just feeling like you're in touch with, with the cosmos, you know, that, that there's, it's like this raw experience, all your, your, your thoughts kind of fall away and, and you step outside yourself.

And I think that's what wild awe is.

So what kind of expeditions?

We were based in not far from the New Hampshire border in Maine, so a lot of hiking and trekking expeditions up in the White Mountains, so Mount Washington through the Presidential Range there, then up into northern Maine to Katahdin, so that's the very northern terminal of the Appalachian Trail.

Okay.

Canoeing trips, whitewater rafting, mountain biking.

It's like, do I really want to do that to myself again?

Now we can go back to Katahdin and do some of the other things, right? Yeah.

That we've talked about and explored.

Right.

Jesse did make a few phone calls back home, but after May 20th, 1983, these calls suddenly stopped.

According to reports, Jesse attempted to climb Mount Katahdin on May 20th, but was stopped by rangers.

These park rangers would tell investigators that they did not let Jessie pass and climb because they believed she was unprepared and would be unable to make it safely up the mountain.

Again, Jessie was a strong-willed woman, so she changed up her plans slightly and she was seen for the last time at the trailhead of the 100-mile wilderness on the Appalachian Trail.

Ranger Ralph W. Heath.

Ralph W. Heath was a park ranger at Baxter State Park in Maine, United States, who allegedly died of exposure while attempting to rescue a woman who was lost on Mount Katahdin in 1963 On Monday, October 28th of that year, two women, Helen Maurer and Margaret Ibasik, both from Concord, Massachusetts, took the Cathedral Trail and climbed Baxter Peak on the mountain.

They reached the summit and stopped to have lunch at around 1:30 in the afternoon.

When the two friends decided to start their hike again and head back down, they had a small argument over the route Margaret wanted to take.