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Some mornings, I wake up and choose a mountain. That's how Friday began.
Glowing on the computer screen in the early morning was Mount Megunticook, the tallest mountain in Camden Hills State Park. It sounded majestic and challenging, perhaps because I had a tough time pronouncing the Native American name.See the full content of this document
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Winter Hiking Lessons Learned On Mount Megunticook
Camden Harbor was first called Mecaddacut, meaning "big mountain place," by the Wawenock tribe that frequented the area, according to author and trekker Steve Pinkham. The warring Tarratine tribe changed the name to "Negunticook" when they defeated the Wawenocks, and the English modified it further to...
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