| Subject | Canoeing in the Allagash |
| DateCreated | 9/20/2009 8:33:00 AM |
| PostedDate | 9/20/2009 8:02:00 AM |
| Body | {2014 note – lost the pictures} I just got back from a week canoeing the Allagash in northern Maine. We left Monday from Fitchburg, stayed overnight in Millinocket ME, then Tuesday drove to Fort Kent. ME,which is about as far north as you can go in the US.
Then Lionel, who works for Norman L’Italien at Pelletier Campground, drove us to Bissonnette Bridge (another three hours into the Maine woods!) where we put in with our three canoes.
Not really a bridge but where a bridge used to be, it’s downstream of Churchill Lake and below MOST of the Chase rapids, but hotdamn enough of those damn rapids to scare the bejeeziz out of all of us! Three canoes fully loaded with our gear dodging (and bouncing off) of scary rocks and coming too close to tipping for my taste! Of course, by the time we got in the water it was 4pm or so, and already the sun was kinda low in the sky. So after negotiating the rapids we came upon a campground, but it was taken by others. So we kept going another mile and stayed at Chisolm Brook campsite. This is all private property, managed by a consortium of timber companies who staff entrance points and collect $8/day per person for the privilege of using these campgrounds. They each had a picnic table, a horizontal ridge pole over the table where you can drape a tarp if you got one, and pit toilets. Â
The second night we stayed at Long Lake Dam campground, where we had to portage across the remnant of a dam. So it was handy to unload the canoe upstream of the dam, and carry the empty canoe downstream below the campsite, and reload it in the morning. We were carrying lots of weight, including at least a case of beer and 6 2.5gal water containers. We stayed at Round Pond Rips the third night and a final night @ Cunliffe Depot (see picture of my tent site below. Note the Allagash stretching out in the background. We had two days of miserable wind and rain in our faces, but not all day, and we had two gorgeous days and one fair to middlin, so all in all I’d day we made out OK. A splendid time was had by all! Jack, Jim, David, Larry, Bill, John – what a crew! |
Fortunately, my partners come well prepared. John Kidder is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to outdoor dining. We ate well.
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