My original intent for Labor Day was to canoe from Allagash Village to Fort Kent for the last leg of the long trip. But I was only slightly disappointed when  the low water levels in the St. John River caused … Continue reading →

I know you don’t have time for this. The garden needs attention. That painting project that got postponed last fall is waiting. Your kids have baseball games, track meets, spring concerts and music lessons peppered all over the calendar. This … Continue reading →

When I was selected as a permit holder in the 2011 Maine Moose Permit Lottery my mailbox was inundated with offers and sales pitches from Maine Guides and outfitters who wanted me to pay for their services. That’s because the … Continue reading →

Many outdoors people say that canoeing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is the trip of a lifetime. I have always been curious about that. If a person has paddled this river once, it is a mystery to me how they could … Continue reading →

  The bridge at Umsaskis Thoroughfare is not an imposing structure. From an approaching pickup on the American Realty Road it could be any one of a dozen bridges crossed on the long drive from Ashland or Allagash Village. But … Continue reading →

The rush of wings was so loud, so close to my head -that I involuntarily ducked down and took a knee on the hard granite ledge. As my arms rose up to protect myself  I sensed, more than saw, the … Continue reading →

Nugent’s Camps were started in 1936 when Al and Patty Nugent put a wood cook stove and all their other worldly possessions on a log raft and made their way down the length of Chamberlain Lake. When the found a … Continue reading →

For thousands of years, Webster Lake ( see page 50 of the DeLorme’s atlas) at the northwest corner of Baxter State Park, was nothing more than a quiet headwater pond in the drainage that fed what we now know as … Continue reading →