Day One: Travel to Maine and meet to learn about the 120 mile river route we will take.
Day Two: Leave for Baker Lake Outlet, the start of our journey. Our departure from the familiar begins here, on the back roads of Maine and Quebec.
Day Three - Seven: On the river. We will paddle through narrow channels where forests of conifer and birch rise steeply from the riverbanks, through gentle bends, magnificent stretches of boulders, and into great open places with long river views of islands, fields and hills. Our mileage per day will depend on weather and river conditions, and we will take a day or two off to rest, fish explore, and just experience being there. The Hardwoods will be budding, there will be fiddleheads to gather, brown trout and salmon to catch, also otter, beaver, moose, black ducks, osprey, mergansers and loons to see and hear, and good company and sumptuous food to share. Most importantly, we will have the river. John McPhee writes: “Most rivers are toughest near the source, but the St. John, as it gathers itself together and develops from a forest stream into a big river, presents a kind of introductory course in white water canoeing, beginning with easy runs, then featuring long days of well spaced examples (a rock here with a good practice eddy, a chute there well-illustrating the formation and nature of the standing wave), then offering two or three days of exam.” At the end of each days’ travel, a hot meal and a snug camp await us, also the opportunity to trade stories about what we have seen and felt, and share the anticipation of what is to come.
Cost: $1,700.00 per person. Trip begins and ends at Bangor or Dicky, Maine. Prices are all inclusive from destination meeting place. Not including are alcoholic beverages and personal items.
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