Summer is Winding Down
There hasn’t been any slowing down here at Mahoosuc despite the rainy weather we experienced this summer. People have been having a great time on the water and in the woods!
There hasn’t been any slowing down here at Mahoosuc despite the rainy weather we experienced this summer. People have been having a great time on the water and in the woods!
Kevin has guided a couple trips on the East Branch of the Penobscot river through the newly formed Katahdin Woods and Water National Monument. This is one of Kevin’s favorite rivers in Maine with it’s beauty and challenges of the rapids and portages around spectacular waterfalls and drops. He also taught a weekend white water clinic on the Androscoggin River by Errol, New Hampshire in July.
Polly has guided a Women’s Canoe & Yoga weekend to Umbagog Lake with yoga instructor Christine Trefethen, a West Branch of the Penobscot River trip for the Nature Conservancy, a Women’s Canoe Trip and Native Plant study in the Grand Lake Stream area ending with a stay at Weatherby’s Sporting Camp and the Grand Lake Stream folk festival. Everyone had a good time and were always brought closer together by any challenging weather that came our way.
In August we did one of our Way of the Wabanaki trips and have one more this season September 14-17th with room for a few more people. These are very much authentic cultural trips with the Penobscot of Indian Island and the surrounding area.
Click here to view a video made by a 14 year old participant of our Allagash River trip in late June of this year, good job Theo! This was a fun group of family and friends who enjoyed singing and did some dancing on the river too!
Polly took her annual horseback riding holiday to the Bob Marshall wilderness area in Montana in July and as always fell in love with her horse, this time a large part Percheron part Pinto named Cisco. The outfitter, 7 Lazy P, did a great job tending to all of the clients and had a nice string of horses and pack mules.
We have had a couple nice mentions lately to help spread the word about Mahoosuc Guide Service from publication Roaming the Americas recommending our Way of the Wabanaki trips as one of the top 11 things to do in Maine and Katy Kelliher’s new book.
We are hosting another Wilderness First Aid course October 20-21st and an Open Recertification course October 20-22nd with Jon Tierney from Wilderness Medical Associates. Contact us to register.
Hope you are enjoying the end of summer and beginning of fall!
Polly, Kevin & all the doggies
Guided Allagash river trips are one of the most pleasant and relaxing canoe trips in Maine. You can see Moose, Eagles, and all the wildlife.
I have been guiding on the Allagash river since 1974 and over the years I’ve seen a distinct pattern in terms of usage. Canoeists must use designated campsites on the waterway and there is no reservation system. In peak periods if paddlers don’t secure a campsite by mid-day or shortly thereafter, they may end up […]
For many avid canoeists, the Allagash River Canoe Trip is on their bucket list, and for good reason. Protected by the citizens of Maine through a referendum in 1966, the mandate was to preserve its “forever wild” state. It truly is some of the wildest areas left in the east. In this article, we’ll help […]
Since I was a teenager it was always on my bucket list to paddle the Allagash. In 2018 I retired from a burdensome career and signed up to paddle the river with Mahoosuc guide service (mgs). It was better than wonderful. All I had to do was show up. They provided all the gear and it was good stuff. The river was beautiful, the sights, smells, scenery, distant mountain views were gorgeous. Polly and associate guides were wonderful and fun to be with. They were attentive, careful, observant and caring and brought campfire cooking to an epicurean level. In March 2019 I went on a dog sled winter camping trip with Kevin and Polly and several other guides. It also was great. Safety was paramount. The dogs were eager, energetic, focused and affectionate. The camp was something out of a Jack London novel. Each tent had a small wood stove and was roasty toasty warm. Food was great and plentiful. Kevin and Polly are so much fun to be with. They always made sure I was warm, well fed and happy;
Then in May 2019 I went on a two night canoe trip with my wife and another couple and they are not campers. We had a great time. The four of us, two lady guides (Polly and Jean) and we saw loons and moose and beaver and sunsets.
And then in August I went with MGS to paddle 170 miles on the Yukon river in Alaska. I am getting older, if I don’t do this stuff now, when will I?? It was better than wonderful. I reminisce about all these trips every day. Time is short, life is short, I need to pack it in. Once this pandemic is over, Polly and Kevin will not be able to get rid of me. Polly and Kevin are the models of Maine Master Guides against whom all others should be compared.