UMaine college of engineering is a good engineering school without the big price tag and with less competition for spots. Downside is it doesn’t have the same name recognition outside of Maine. All in all, a very good value I think.

Uninformed people may vote based on name recognition. Especially down ballot.

I also do SAR. So far no Lyme, but plenty of ticks removed. Can’t wait for the Lyme vaccine!

Ki Jo Mary might be slightly different from North Maine Woods

https://www.northmainewoods.org/ki-jo-mary/kijocheckpoints.html

Looks like the day use fee and camping fees would have been in affect while you were there

Anything in the North Maine Woods/KI Jo Mary requires a fee. Outside of that I think you’re right about most of the primitive sites being free.

some of those primitive spots still require paying a fee to either the state or North Maine Woods.

Maine public reserved land (you can also search by activity on the Maine bureau of parks and land website):

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/docs/your-maine-lands.pdf

North Maine Woods, Inc wall map PDF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qs7abV3FItE-bc9QNEC_rI2eo4VO55KV/view

https://www.northmainewoods.org

I’m in Maine, not New Hampshire but I worked remotely for a company based in Boston — they applied for a Maine tax ID and paid me with my Maine taxes withheld. You shouldn’t need to pay Massachusetts income tax if they set you up properly for remote work. Your taxes are based on where you physically sit while you work. When I used to occasionally travel to out of state offices, I’d have to file income taxes in multiple states. Once I had to file Connecticut income tax for spending three days in that office, because my company tracked it and listed multiple states on my W2.

So the picture is basically someone using your slack line as a Tyrolean Traverse.

For our SAR high lines and Tyrolean travers setups, we use a pair of tensioned low stretch 11mm ropes, since we’re not building them to take whippers on!

Isn’t a Tyrolean traverse basically a slack line where the person hangs from it and uses it to traverse between two high points? This picture looks like a textbook example of a Tyrolean Traverse.

I’ve built high lines for SAR, which are similar but we use pulleys to build mechanical advantage to move the load, and we have a Petzl kootenay carriage attached to the ropes with a litter hanging from it.

Tyrolean Traverse

State income tax is 100% paid for by residents. Food and lodging tax is at least partially paid by tourists.

If the state needed to raise additional money to pay for some program, it would likely be better to raise that money through an increase in lodging tax vs income or sales tax, because it would shift at least some of the burden off residents and onto tourists. Lots of tourist destinations try to shift taxes onto visitors when possible. Obviously some Mainers pay lodging tax as well, but any amount shifted to taxes non-residents pay reduces the overall tax burden of residents.

I never get over how much lower Maines lodging tax is compared to other places I travel.

There is no grocery tax. Junk food and prepared foods are not exempt from sales tax — but that is not new.

Yeah, I live in Bar Harbor and I’ve seen a noticeable change in crowds over the last 15+ years. Still, even when the parking lots are full it’s usually not too bad once you get on trail because everyone that parked at the trailhead is spread out (and possibly taking different routes).

If you cross in Jackman, you just keep going north on 201 if you loose cell reception. There will be signs. Printing directions is not needed.

It’s not that the Maine government doesn’t “believe” the science from the federal government — it’s that they don’t care either way because of money

No. The washout was on the road between Greenville and Jackman, not 201 and it’s been repaired.

Last time I went to Quebec I crossed at the Jackman crossing. I was arriving in Jackman near dusk and saw a dozen moose between Caratunk and the border (sometimes 2 at once). It was nuts.

Collins managed to get a significant number of split ticket voters. I don’t see LePage doing that.

That’s the closest place UPS sorts packages to send them to regional distribution centers

Beans is sending an entire tractor trailer load of packages at a time. They get sorted in Chelmsford and loaded onto large trucks to go the regional distribution centers. Then at the regional center they get sorted by delivery route and loaded onto delivery trucks.

Acadia’s really not bad once you get out on the trails. A lot of people never make it very far from Park Loop Road.

I bet you hope this happens to you so you finally get to be a bad ass and shoot someone.

You don’t have the right to shoot an unarmed person when you are safely inside a locked vehicle. Best thing to do is record the situation so you can provide evidence to the police.

The cod fishery collapsed. The shrimp fishery collapsed. It’s naive to think the currently sustainable lobster fishery will remain so forever. Fewer lobsters thanks to a rapidly warming gulf combined with the same number of traps being dropped is probably not going to end well.

There has been speculation that the collapse of the cod population helped the lobster fishery continue to land large hauls because there is less predation of juvenile lobster. What happens when some warmer water fish moves up here and takes the place of the cod?

The gulf of Maine is warming rapidly. Lobsters are moving north (its a dying industry in southern New England). The danger is that the population continues to shift north and the fishery in Maine collapses because there are no longer enough lobster to support the size of the commercial fishery.

Fishermen, however, are adamantly against off-shore wind, which would help reduce fossil fuel use.