The weather forecast for this Friday, July 26, is mediocre for hiking so our hikes to East Royce or The Roost are both cancelled. No hikes are scheduled to next week as Friday July 3, is too close to the Holiday to expect people to show up. Thus our next hike will be July 10, is mt Tire’m or Tire’em.
July 10, Easy – Mount Tir’em aka Mt Tire’m (1,073 ft), Waterford, ME – 1.75 mi RT, 554 ft. elevation gain. RT hiking 1 hour. RT driving 1.5 hours.
Meet at the Denmark Church at 8:30 AM. The Daniel Brown Trailhead is on the Plummer Hill Rd just beyond the Congregational church and Town Office in Waterford. We will ferry people up to the Grover Rd trailhead, hike to the summit and descend the Daniel Brown Trail.
Mount Tir’em – not Mount Tire’m!
For years we’ve called the little mountain in Waterford “Mount Tire’m”, based on good advice. “Tire’m” is how both the AMC Maine Mountain Guide and Marita Wiser’s “Hikes and Woodland Walks In and Around Maine’s Lakes Region” spell it. Turns out we’ve allbeen spelling it wrong all these years – it is really “Tir’em”.
Ten years ago several people on the Denmark Mountain Hikers climb to the top.that would have been on April 29, 2016, pointed out to Allen that the mountain should be spelled “Mount Tir’em”, he argued that his way of spelling it was correct. Then they passed signs for the “Mount Tir’em” apple orchard and the “Mt Tir’em Masonic Lodge” and he admitted his error and actually wrote, “Uncle” in the hike report.
Mount Tir’em is a small 1,104-foot mountain in Waterford, Maine that offers nice views of the Long Lake Region, Bear Pond, and the Presidentials. This is an easy hike despite the daunting name the mountain carries. According to Warren’s 1879 History of Waterford, Maine “the local Native Americans, members of the Pequawket tribe of Fryeburg, would complain that climbing the steep mountain would ‘tire’m out.’”
April 2016
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