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Non-profit organization protecting 8,000 acres of land and managing over 32 miles of trails in the northern Sebago Lake region of Maine. 🌲 #hikelelt

“For there is always light, If only we’re brav

“For there is always light,
If only we’re brave enough to see it,
If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

From “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman

Bald Pate Mountain was conserved 24 years ago toda

Bald Pate Mountain was conserved 24 years ago today! Sometimes it feels like this special place just exists; that it’s there because, well, of course it it! But it doesn’t just exist. It didn’t just ‘end up’ that way. It took people who cared, working together, to make it what it is today.

In 1996, Bald Pate Mountain had long been used by local residents to hike, hunt, snowmobile, bird watch, and cross country ski thanks to a private landowner who allowed public access to the land.

But that was all set to change. There were plans to build a television tower on Bald Pate. A group of local residents got together and stopped the tower from being constructed on the summit. Then, knowing development on the mountain remained a threat, ‘Friends of Bald Pate’ and Loon Echo Land Trust raised $180,000 in three months to purchase and permanently protect the 450 mountain acres on January 13, 1997.

Today, thanks to the foresight and efforts of all involved, Bald Pate Mountain Preserve is open to all. It remains a place to hike, hunt, snowmobile, bird watch, and cross country ski. What an incredible gift, a remarkable legacy: beloved Bald Pate. 💚

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.

“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.” - From the poem “Sometimes” by Mary Oliver

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What’s guaranteed to make the Mondayest Monday o

What’s guaranteed to make the Mondayest Monday of all the Mondays a little less Monday-y? Snow, sunshine, and an adventure in the woods. ☀️

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