Acadia National Park

Doug Duncan, a member of the Acadia National Park trails crew, expains the high-line system of wires and pulleys used to fly large chunks of local granite down steep hillsides so they may be used to reconstruct the east leg of the Jordan Pond Loop Trail. The century-old trail is to first to benefit from the park's new Trails Forever mainetanance endowment.
Photo by Misty Edgecomb. October 20, 2000. Acadia National Park, Maine. Bangor Daily News