Last weekend we traveled several hours north on I-95 until the exit to the small town of Howland ME appeared. Venturing east at the exit, one travels five or six miles until the utility poles end. About a mile after that, we reach our friends camp, nestled off the road (no power but still a paved road) halfway to an out-of-the-way stream.

We will have more stream images but here you can see the modern infrastructure several miles to the south of the camp. The Passadumkeag mountain is a long ridge where a major wind turbine operation is in full, …. rotation. These wind mills do not bother me or upset my expectations of being in “nature” away from the human world. From our usual hangouts around the camp, they are not visible. When they are visible, they are many miles away. These photos are from a long ride on logging roads and the service roads built to support the wind power construction.

I have heard that they are noisy if you end up being close to them (and some sites in Maine are closer to full-time or part-time residential areas). I also don’t think they have proven to be a hazard to wildlife (killers of birds and bats?) as some predicted.