You don’t have to be a mountain climber to see the mountain. Come with us on five mystical 100-foot journeys.

From Staff & Wire Reports

As fellow explorers, we respect the hard way to discover Maine but sometimes share a guilty pleasure when we’re jumped by beauties that barely require a single step.

While some of us love the thrill of a steep ascent in crampons, others crave the big payoffs of a 100-foot journey: the Lazy Hiker’s Lobster experience with the shell already cracked for us.  It’s only a few steps to the ramp of a sea plane waiting to take you wheeling over Mt. Kineo. It’s also a hundred feet from the porch of the Bar Harbor Inn to the dock where the schooner Margaret Todd is tied up, ready to take you on a romantic island cruise. It’s far less than one hundred feet from your car to one of Maine’s many scenic overlooks. As for the rest of this story, it’s yours with just the turn of a page.

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