Solar Eclipse Over Katahdin

The choice of where to go for the eclipse was fairly easy for me. Looking at all of the places in the path of totality, I knew that I wanted to capture it over Katahdin, because this is the place I feel most connected to.   Seeing a total solar eclipse is something I've wanted to experience since I was a little kid. I was an astronomy and nature nerd, big time. The chance to see something like this over somewhere I feel so strongly about felt too good to be true, especially as we got closer to the event and it because clear that we would have good conditions for viewing it, which had been unlikely from a climatological perspective.  I scouted all of the possible places to see the eclipse over the great mountain, and landed on Mount Chase just two weeks ago. Of course, the ideal location would have been at Chimney Pond, but the park is closed this time of year and even though I know the rangers, I knew I wasn't going to get in. Mount Chase was the next best option because the summit lined up perfectly with the summit of Katahdin at totality. I thought we might not see too many people up here either, since the hike in was around 4 miles through mud and soft spring snow. But, just to be safe, we left at 4 AM to make the drive up, arriving at our final destination around 9:30 AM with my buddies Charles Cormier and Andrew Dupee.  We hung out with some folks that arrived on the summit around the same time we did, including a group of super nice college students who had two full boxes of Oreo cookies and other snacks that they were excitedly handing out to everyone who reached the summit, saying "Have a victory cookie!" People kept streaming in and a real party atmosphere developed. By the time of totality, I guess there were around 80 people on the small summit.   Leading up to totality, we noticed that what had been blindingly bright snow had dimmed, and the sky also took on a dimmed, ashen appearance, noticeably darkening with time. Views through solar f

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The choice of where to go for the eclipse was fairly easy for me. Looking at all of the places in the path of totality, I knew that I wanted to capture it over Katahdin, because this is the place I feel most connected to.   Seeing a total solar eclipse is something I've wanted to experience since I was a little kid. I was an astronomy and nature nerd, big time. The chance to see something like this over somewhere I feel so strongly about felt too good to be true, especially as we got closer to the event and it because clear that we would have good conditions for viewing it, which had been unlikely from a climatological perspective.  I scouted all of the possible places to see the eclipse over the great mountain, and landed on Mount Chase just two weeks ago. Of course, the ideal location would have been at Chimney Pond, but the park is closed this time of year and even though I know the rangers, I knew I wasn't going to get in. Mount Chase was the next best option because the summit lined up perfectly with the summit of Katahdin at totality. I thought we might not see too many people up here either, since the hike in was around 4 miles through mud and soft spring snow. But, just to be safe, we left at 4 AM to make the drive up, arriving at our final destination around 9:30 AM with my buddies Charles Cormier and Andrew Dupee.  We hung out with some folks that arrived on the summit around the same time we did, including a group of super nice college students who had two full boxes of Oreo cookies and other snacks that they were excitedly handing out to everyone who reached the summit, saying "Have a victory cookie!" People kept streaming in and a real party atmosphere developed. By the time of totality, I guess there were around 80 people on the small summit.   Leading up to totality, we noticed that what had been blindingly bright snow had dimmed, and the sky also took on a dimmed, ashen appearance, noticeably darkening with time. Views through solar f