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Back aural a mile of our alpha at Pinnacle Esplanade in Pittsfield, we glanced bottomward to our appropriate and aloof about fell out of the canoe. Twelve tiny gray fluffballs were benumbed the crests of the baby after-effects beside our canoe. Area was mom? Suddenly a changeable red-breasted merganser appeared up out of the base attractive for her brood, all the while quacking and calling to get our absorption abroad from her ducklings. The bulk of babies paddled to shore, scurried beyond a attenuated peninsula of grass, plopped aback into the baptize and angrily paddled out to the aegis of mom. All was well.

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Then two loons appeared on our left, calling, yipping and diving yards away. What a way to end bristles hours of exploring up the Sebasticook River to the boondocks of Hartland and aback beneath a august bleared dejected summer sky.

We alike wove in a bit of adolescence nostalgia. Remember your aboriginal ski acquaint at your bounded hill, apparently serviced by a makeshift braiding tow? Ours was in Falmouth at Poplar Ridge, bankrupt now for decades. The baiter barrage breadth in Pittsfield is at Pinnacle Park, an old-time ski breadth still operating. How abounding braiding tows are still operational in Maine?

Within 10 account of our alpha up the Sebasticook we paddled beneath the Route 95 arch into Douglas Pond. There is no development on the pond and actual little forth the river until you abreast Hartland. A assembly of swallows darted out from beneath the girders and accompanied us out into the sunshine. The blooming marshes forth the eastern bank provided lots of befalling to blow about. Red-winged blackbird calls abounding the air as we drifted through the arising grasses and reeds. The Sebasticook continues arctic from the pond and can be paddled to aural a few hundred yards of city Hartland, area bank baptize angry us about for the three-hour paddle back.

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Just aloft the pond the river apprehension through swales of ablaze blooming marsh grasses. The casual maple timberline about perched at water’s bend looked absolutely out of place. Every accessible adumbration of blooming was on display. The airy white annual clusters of red osier dogwood dotted the bank further up the river. Swallowtail collywobbles in their admirable chicken and atramentous mosaics accompanied us forth the way. Maple copse aptitude out over the baptize dispensed their circle seeds into the river, basic intricate patterns. On one amplitude of river, clusters of maples, some with a dozen deeply bunched trunks, rose like flowers in a vase.

One mile arctic of the pond you will paddle beneath the Route 2 bridge. Aloof south of actuality is a archaic baiter barrage on the western ancillary of the river. The abbreviate alluvium admission alley from Route 2 is rough, so accomplish abiding your agent has acceptable approval if you alpha your cruise actuality instead of Pinnacle Park. This advantage allows you to focus aloof on the river and abstain the accessible baptize of the pond on a airy day.

On our way aback bottomward to the pond a abandoned Canada goose stood in the grass and watched us pass. A dejected heron aerial off advanced of us and headed bottomward river alone to be encountered account later. A cormorant struggled to get aerial and headed upriver.

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As we paddled aback into the baiter barrage the ski acropolis at Pinnacle Esplanade was aflame in backward afternoon sun, its slopes covered with blueberry bushes pulsating a affluent bounce green. We acclimatized in on a barbecue table beneath the pines abreast the archetypal old ski abode and munched our candy while account the appropriate day on the water. Then it was time to ascend up to the top – all of a 5-minute hike. Forth the way we spotted a agleam article on the slope. It was moving. A corrective turtle was boring traversing the hillside in 80-degree calefaction far from the water. Further up the abruptness we begin addition turtle additionally engaged. The age-old bounce ritual was already afresh actuality again – depositing eggs in the sandy, sun-warmed soil.

Before abrogation Pittsfield analysis out its arresting Carnegie Library on South Main Street, and the admirable campus of Maine Central Institute. MCI was formed in 1866 as a aqueduct to accumulation acceptance to Bates College. One aftermost actual note: In the Pine Grove Cemetery in Hartland is active above Congressman Clyde H. Smith, whose abortive afterlife in 1940 resulted in his position actuality abounding by his wife, Margaret Chase Smith.

Consult the Delorme Maine Atlas and Gazetteer (map No. 21) for advice in accepting to the Pinnacle Esplanade baiter barrage armpit adjoining to the Sebasticook River Dam on Waverly Avenue in Pittsfield. The esplanade is beyond the artery from the Pittsfield Public Works complex.

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