Skenonto-Sebago Redux

Skenonto-Sebago Redux, Harriman State Park (4/14/2011)

Four months ago, Laura and I visited Lakes Skenonto and Sebago in a hike of my own design. During that hike our visit to Skenonto was limited to the views from its southern tip. Today, at the suggestion of my friend Andy, he and I decided to see more of Skenonto by hiking the Victory trail along its entire western bank, in addition to covering some other woods roads and unmaintained trails not previously traversed.

Like the last time, we parked on Route 106 at the Victory trail's northern trailhead. But this time we took that trail all the way to the northern tip of Lake Skenonto, then continued along its entire western bank with wonderful views the entire way. We then took the Triangle trail south to Sebago, continuing on Triangle (skirting its bank for just a bit), before continuing east along a woods road to the ADK Camp Nawakwa. Here we ate lunch in one of the most unique places ever during a hike -- we ate on the water, sitting on a bench on a floating dock, enjoying the amazing view of Sebago from water level. After lunch we headed west, over the hill and back to the Triangle, making a right onto that trail and taking that back to the northern half of Sebago, at which point we abanonded the Triangle and continued along the western bank on an unmaintained trail all the way to the picnic area near the beach (at the northern tip of the lake). A woods road, then an unmaintained trail (both heading NW) brought us back to the Victory trail which we took back to the car.

Unless there was a discrepency with my pedometer (which is usually quite accurate), the total distance hiked today was 7.2 miles (more than we expected), in about 4.5 hours.

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