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As a historian, I occasionally have the rare luck of combining work with pleasure - today I was able to take the time to go down a 200-year old paddling rabbit hole. It seems that in 1820, after becoming a state, Maine charged Major Joseph Treat to help with surveying the "wilderness." Led by...

Just finished Is A River Alive? , recently published by Robert Macfarlane. He seeks to answer the title’s question from a philosophical perspective by traveling to rivers in Ecuador, India, and Quebec and immersing himself in three different rivers’ stories. Fascinating & thoroughly enjoyable...

Ben came across the Megiscane route over the winter, and one of us mentioned it might be a good run for us to do this spring. It seemed simple enough. Train from Senneterre about two hours to Monet, drag to the put-in on the lake. There are about 40kms of un-canoe-mapped lakes and twists and...

I guess I didn't post the text of the TR on this site - you can find it on CCR. Finally finished the film - not high drama, but you'll get the gist of the experience. Maybe worth an hour if you're watching a spring blizzard out the window like we are in Maine.

Gens de Terre Trip Report, September 2023 We managed to pull off a late season trip somewhat out of the blue. Ben wanted to do the GdT because it was one of the few rivers in that neighborhood that he hadn’t run yet. Tom and I hadn’t run anything in that neck of the woods before, and were happy...