Steep and Rocky

Beachcroft Trail, Champlain Mountain, Acadia National Park

... each step is a reminder of the turbulent geological times...

   Granite rocks have seen it all in their long life...
   Born deep down in the Earth's crust, under extreme pressure... and, at some point,
       pushed onto the surface and scrapped to the basics by glaciers ...
   Their crystals are coloring the ridges they helped create...
   ... attracting lichens, mosses, leafy minors... and finally, trees... looking for these slight cracks
       which, with time, become soil-filled pools of life...

... into the clouds...

The Mountain

South Ridge, Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
 
At 466 meters (1530 feet), she is the highest point along the North Atlantic coast. And the first to see a sunrise in the United States from autumn through spring. Millions of years of turbulent history makes her who she is today. A family of granite boulders, subalpine people... and clouds...
... winds shape her defiant character...
... and we take-in her eternal energy...

Stairway to Heaven

Kurt Diederich's Climb, Acadia National Park

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
...
Oooh, it makes me wonder
...
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow
...
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
...
LED ZEPPELIN, Stairway to Heaven