Katahdin Sketchbook 🌲 (Fall 2024)

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Selected sketchbook pages from the 2024 Katahdin Woods & Waters Expedition…

Map of environs & route of approach:

👈Note stuck to inside back cover of my sketchbook… Very official, very certified!

When I signed on as the official artist of this hiking expedition, I didn’t know what to expect! I planned to sketch every day, no matter what happened… Here are some results:

4″x6″ PRO-ART pocket sketchbook.
Title page doodle (drawn on the way north)
Morning traffic on I-95 north of Boston…
Portland pit-stop.
First night campsite — A barred owl came to welcome us, howling & crooning directly over my late-night study-table.
☝ First sunrise: Gray skies, wide river, splashing beaver…
☝ Opening Day @ Tekαkαpimək Contact Station:

DAY 3-4-5: Spring Brook Hut & Western Lookout

☝ Panorama from the Lookout cliffs, looking south & west across the Turners, w/ Katahdin in the distant clouds.

👉 The sun sets through a corner of the old-growth Hemlock nursery — Ancient trees nurture new growth in boot-deep moss beds.

👈 Sitting up late under the bright Milky Way & shooting stars — KWW is the deepest, darkest Night Sky Sanctuary in New England!

DAY 5-6-7: Lunksoos Mountain

☝ Lunksoos lean-to: The Forester & the Cook @ our breakfast fire.
☝ Late at night: The Cartographer & the Historian review maps for tomorrow’s hike…
☝ Panorama from the lower summit of Lunksoos Mountain, looking North up+along the Penobscot East Branch.

☝ Hard at work atop Lunksoos…
☝ Katahdin across the Turners, from Lunksoos. (If you sit long enough, sooner or later you’ll get a peak at that peak through the clouds…)
☝ Final sketch: Ducks flying south along the Penobscot, over Big Pitch cataracts.

NOTES & MORE SKETCHBOOK PAGES 👉

AREA INFO:

SEE ALSO:

Penobscot Sketchbook (Summer 2024)

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Cartoonist, musician, teacher.

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