Figured the A.T. elevation profile was just hype, then the climb out of Katahdin's shadow humbled me
I went in thinking a 500 foot gain per mile average on the Maine stretch was a soft number, but after three straight days grinning up 2,000 foot climbs like the Chairback ridge, I'll never eyeball a profile again, so what's the one climb that made you rethink how you read trail maps?