MichaelMerry

I got my two canoes back from the shop (Kimball Pond Boat Barn, Bob Bassett, Vienna, Maine) Bob did a nice job of clinching all the...

LaVerendrye, Qc. August 2026

Thursday July 16 - Part 2 My new sleeping pad is very comfy and about 4" tall. So when my hand slipped off the side it made an actual...

I was in my canoe on the river between Long Lake and Tully Reservoir in Royalston, Massachusetts, yesterday when I stopped among the...

Wednesday July 15 (Day 3) Since my tent was just a pile of soaking wet fabric as a result of it's launch into the river last night I...

The problem with Hosea B, other than my inability to reliably spell the name, is really that there’s no flat spot except right by the...

For life reasons that nobody cares about, I’ve been trying hard to get back into canoe camping this summer after a winter that wasn’t...

Not sure how I managed to leave out one of the most riveting moments of the trip that occurred on the evening of the 14th… But between...

Tuesday, July 14 (day 2) - We had a midnight supper of sauteed gnocchi & sausage, likely followed by a piece of pie, a cigar, and...

Monday, July 13 (Day 1) It was another lovely sunny morning. With our gear mostly packed and ready to go we needed a simple breakfast...

Dams are over rated. Water is best stored below the surface as ground water. Fish and wildlife benefit from undammed streams. Dams...

The Penobscot River Restoration Trust removed three dams, opened a thousand miles of Salmon habitat, increased the hydropower capacity...

A little more on beaver and river restoration. Pre-beaver-wipe-out fur trapping, the little buggers were all over, and a lot of the...

We've decided that we should provide a sort of executive summary here, and then (inspired by Erica) create an episodic trip report that...

And let's not forget muskox coming within 100m from camp. Kazan River, Nunavut.