Scrambling Across Portland
Travel with Tom Jewell through the green heart of Maine's largest city.
By Aurelia C. Scott photography by Carl D. Walsh
We're doing a ten-mile loop today across the city," announces Tom Jewell, unfolding a Portland Trails map to trace the route from Deering Oaks park through northwest Portland and back. Nine men and women, aged twenty- to sixty-something, nod enthusiastically while rubbing on sunscreen and enveloping themselves in clouds of Deep Woods Off. Most sport hiking boots and shorts, although one woman wears Keds and an ankle-length white dress. It is 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning in June, and the group is wide awake and confident.
