Thursday - Cadillac - ridges and wind

Had breakfast on patio watching busy harbour. Two cruise ships arrived but anchored outside the harbour, so there was a flottilla of small boats ferrying backwards and forwards to the cruise ships.
We used the free State Park bus to take us to the Trailhead for the North Ridge Trail up Cadillac Mtn. A well signed path quickly took us above the thicker trees and onto large areas of open rock, granite. This gave us superb views over the coast, inlets and islands. We could see both of the cruise ships at anchor. As we neared the top the wind built up very quickly and the cloud came down. It cleared enough to walk round the summit area and get a full 360 degree view. We then set off down the South Ridge. This gave us views ahead to islands and the North Atlantic. The wind continued to increase and we were stopped in our tracks a few times and almost blown over a number of times. The path was still on enormous sections of granite, the way shown by blue blazes or State Park Cairns, granite boulders built like a capital A or a bridge. Eventually we got down to the Blackwood Camp site where we got the free bus back to Bar Harbour.
A very different walk to the others we have done here, though still a lot of foliage turning at the moment.