11/10/2022
Sooo my bf captured the 1st pic of this slide the moment I turned around for the first time after I scaled a freaking mountain. This was one of the scariest moments of my life, on par with how I felt when I went ice climbing. We were in Acadia and we planned to do the Jordan Pond Trail which is not super hard and at the end, you get rewarded with popovers from Jordan Restaurant - no brainer!
We both had read about Bubble Rock Trail and that it's a cute fun little thing to do mid-way through the Jordan Pond hike. Sure we said. First we hiked through such interesting lands like the name suggests, a bunch of small bubble rocks. We were going at a solid pace, getting higher and higher on the mountain, and then boom - the woman in front of us had a look of terror on her face. My bf was ahead of me and suddenly his tone got a bit more serious. Before I knew it I realized I was faced with literally having to scramble up a large rock surface and if I looked behind me, it was over. I had a 40 second cry sesh, realized there was literally no turning back and I had to just gather myself bc hi I could die otherwise. So I did it the next 2 scrambles up and then ahhh enter picture 1 of this slide. Slide 2 was the grand reward ๐
HIKING TRAIL TIP: Counterclockwise wise all the freaking way. I genuinely cannot even fathom how a human would go another way. Just trust me.
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