KEBO MOUNTAIN TRAIL

Years ago there was a section of the Kebo Mountain trail located in the woods between the base of Kebo Mountain and the Golf Course.  I have hiked along that section of trail many times over the years, it was not a very long section, which began in the woods directly across from where the kebo Mountain Trail begins today.  Across the roadway is a set of stone steps with a new trail head sign.  At the base of those stone steps is a new trail the Park Service built a few years back.  The new trail runs to the left and to the right of those stone steps.  The abandoned section of the Kebo Trail also ran from those steps, heading downward to the brook, where it crosses the brook and continues to where it meets up with the Stratheden path by the Building of the arts.  The Stratheden path continued across the Kebo Golf Course to the area of the Building of the Arts.
Sadly, this is the first case I know of where the Park Service has taken action to completely erase a section of an abandoned trail.  The thinking behind taking such action must of been when they built the new trail through there, they clearly must of known with the old abandoned section of the Kebo trail being so visible, they had to do something to stop hikers from venturing down the abandoned section of trail and walking out onto the Golf course, how to deal with the problem - erase any trace of that section of the abandoned Kebo Mountain Trail.    This may of not been their thinking, but it is the only one that makes sense.
Like I said, I knew  where the now lost section of the Kebo Trail was because I had hiked it many times down to the golf course.
What came as a total surprise to me was that a section of the abandoned Stratheden path, the section between the official trail today and the abandoned Kebo Mountain trail, began directly across the road  from the start of the Stratheden path and ran across the golf course in almost a straight line to where the large stone is located  iengraved Stratheden path.

KEBO MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

KEBO MOUNTAIN - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

DORR MOUNTAIN CREVICE CAVE

DORR MOUNTAIN CAVE

  I came across a video on this Crevice Cave on dorr Mountain, and the area the cave is in looked very familiar.  Upon returning to the area the other day, the cave is in the area I had thought it was in, but in all my trips up Dorr Mountain over the years, for some reason I had never noticed it.  So there are at least two ways you can reach this spot on the mountain side, either take the Dorr Mountain Trail just behind Sieur de Monts Spring, or take my favorite route up, the Homans Trail, either way hike until you come to an intersection where both trails meet higher up, a trail sign is there.  From there continue along the Dorr trail heading up the mountain, you will soon come to a long fairly flat section of the trail.  The flat section of trail ends at a sharp right hand turn where your passing up through a passage through the granite, with stone steps ending at a half circle area, this is where the top of the cave opening is located.  As you stand there and look outward at the view before you, turn to your left where you will see a large triangular block of granite in the ground, almost like a sunken step, look down by that block and you will be peering into the cave.  Use caution as this is a fairly steep opening.   Now that you know where the top of the cave is located, go back down the narrow passage you came up, walk a short ways back along the flat section of trail you came along, looking to your left for a deep narrow crevice, that is the bottom opening to the cave.
We did not go up through it, but there is a video on Youtube where someone has, in the video they were able to climb through the cave in both directions.

DORR MOUNTAIN CREVICE CAVE TRAIL
Photo above is the long flat section of trail with a sharp right hand turn ahead and stone steps.

Dorr Mountain Trail - Acadia National Park

Photo above is the steps and narrow passage at sharp right hand turn, flat open area is at top of steps.

The view from the small open area at top of steps, looking out, opening to cave is to the left, go toward edge and look down to see it.

DORR MOUNTAIN CAVE - Acadia National Park

And here is the top opening to the crevice cave, notice in the photo the first two steps, at one time this must of been part of the trail, or at least a feature along the trail.

Bottom Opening of Crevice Cave
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Top Opening of Crevice cave
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DORR MOUNTAIN CREVICE CAVE VIDEO

CAN YOU SOLVE THIS MYSTERY

A genealogy mystery isn't something you would expect to find on Abandoned Trails, but we have been trying to solve this mystery for a number of years with no success, so we are trying a new approach by posting this on non genealogy sites in the hopes that some one can solve the mystery.  We have a document and all the information on it is known except for the maiden name of Francis foster's wife, Sarah  ?.  I have cut and pasted three sections of the document together and darkened it a bit in order to make it easier to read, and I will post a link to the official document as well.

LINK TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENT