Editorial: Enjoy the Maine woods – but respect it too

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • April 18, 2021

On the first weekend in April, Maine game wardens responded to two distress calls, one from a hiker who had fallen into the water along the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County, and another from a family who had gotten lost on Tumbledown Mountain in Weld. Neither party was prepared for their adventures-turned-bad, and in that way they act as a warning to everyone, from our state and elsewhere, who’ll visit the Maine woods this summer: There’s nothing inherently dangerous about the vast majority of Maine trails. But if you plan to use them, make sure you actually plan.