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Drove from Wellsboro to Millinocket Maine to
start the trip. Spent the night at the Kathadein Forest Cabins. Primitive but inexpensive. Met up with Katahdin Outfitter the next morning for the drive into the park. |
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The Indian Stream Put-in requires that you navigate down this narrow connecting channel for a quarter mile or so. There was enough water in it to run this time. Last trip we pulled the canoes much of the way. | |
Jim and Jeff exiting the Indian Stream Put-in |
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A view of Mt. Katahdin in the distance | |
Just around the corner we had the first moose sighting |
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Then we found some gigantic train locomotives
sitting in the woods. This is not the least bit unusual in the north woods of Maine I guess | |
Naturally we had to climb all over them They were huge. Check out Hans standing by the wheel for perspective |
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You would think grown men would have more common sense | |
Our first camp in Farm Island on Eagle Lake It started raining about 10 pm and continued steady through the night and the next morning. |
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After lunch the rain let up a bit so we broke camp and managed to cover some distance | |
Our second night's camp Schofield Point on Churchill Lake | |
The next day broke sunny and warm. A nice picture of Mike enjoying the emerging morning sun with a rainbow in the background | |
There is nothing quite so lovely as a sunny day after a raining day | |
Some traditional canoe on the lakes pictures
follow Hans and Tom | |
Jim and Jeff | |
Mike and Bob | |
Bill and Bill | |
We got to the Churchill Dam early in the day
but were still behind a large scout group and some other groups as well The rangers portage your equipment and you if you like around the Chase Rapids. Otherwise you run them in empty canoes The good news was that we were packed so well the rangers took our bags to fill left over space in the truck so we got in front of the crowd | |
The Chase Rapids were described as
easy class II. I thought they were hard class II. Anyway all of us got through ok |
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Another view of some of the Chase Rapids | |
We did short days so we could get to
the Chase Rapids before they closed the flow from the dam Unfortunately this left us with a long day on the third day |
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After a while we just started walking | |
Our third night camp at Long Lake Dam Click for a video of the campsite |
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Another sunny day for paddling | |
We had the same 20 miles or so to paddle but had flowing water most of the day in contrast to the lakes yesterday | |
Another moose sighting | |
Our fourth night's camp at Ramsey Ledge | |
The group enjoying our evening wine social before dinner | |
Another sunny and beautiful day for paddling | |
More of the same as we progress downriver | |
The only portage on this trip is around
Allagash Falls The portage is about a quarter of a mile on a good trail We felt that the falls were not adequately marked as you would definitely die if
you canoed past the portage point |
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A nice picture of Allagash Falls | |
Our fifth's night camp at East Twin Brook | |
Sometimes I wonder how this group ever manages to get anywhere | |
Our cars were waiting just like the outfitter
promised We left the canoes in the parking area and began the 16 hour trip to Wellsboro |
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