The Allagash | Paddling Northern Maine | Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2023
- A 10 day canoe trip through Northern Maine along the scenic Allagash Wilderness Waterway. We encounter whitewater, vast lakes, and intimate boreal settings in some of Maine's most stunning wilderness. As far as canoe tripping goes, we couldn't ask for more - silence, remote, and serene - but that kind of seclusion doesn't come without its challenges.
Trip Date: September 23 - October 5, 2022
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Your videography is stunning! You have captured a soothing trip and presented it with such serenity it feels like I was on the voyage too! Congrats on a wonderful video capturing your journey.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad it made you feel as if you were on the trip. That’s my goal! I want to give people the sense of what I felt when I was there. So that’s a high compliment :) Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment and nice words!
AWESOME ADVENTURE....
Thanks! It was great. Hope you enjoyed the video!
@@Beyond_The_Treeline sure i do..
I am lucky to live here and enjoy the beautiful sites everyday.
You are indeed! It’s beautiful country up there!
Me too. Moved to central Maine two years ago!
My dad always wanted to do the Allagash but never did. So I'll have to "do this trip thru you". Dad was born in the town of Easton Center, Aroostook CO., ME in 1910. He lost his father, due to the effects of TB, when he was 5. As a boy of probably 10, he accompanied his brother, older by 12 years, who was a fire warden in the summer months in northern ME, in a canoe across Eagle Lake, Square Lake, and Cross Lake to get to the cabin where his brother stayed when he wasn't in the fire tower. I would guess that perhaps Rte 161 between Caribou & Daigle might not have existed in 1920. Don't remember where the fire tower was located, and maybe he never said; way too many years ago to remember. Life, so to speak, got in his way as he got older, with new responsibilities. Somewhere along the way, he told his three daughters what he had hoped to do, but things changed.
@@joane.landers9151 wow, thanks for sharing that with me. I’m glad this video was able to bring you along on the trip and remember your dad through it! That would have been quite the time to be a fire warden in the north woods. A very solitary job I’m sure. But a lot of good time jn nature. I’m glad you were able to join along on the journey with us!
@@Beyond_The_Treeline Thank you.
Beautiful trip guys. Really enjoyed watching it. Spending that much time on the water can really change your perspective. Brought back some wonderful memories of a trip I did with my 3 young sons about 25 years ago in Algonquin Provincial Park . Thanks for posting and taking us along with you. Hope you get to do many many more!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed watching. You are so right, it really does change your perspective. I love that our trip brought back some of your trip memories! I enjoy connecting with others over these shared paddling memories. Thanks for the comment! Have a few trips in the works for this year, so I’ll definitely be sharing them as well :)
What a beautiful video. The views from the fire tower were spectacular with all the different colors. It seems you and your friend get along great, you work so well together. Me and my husband enjoyed this video a lot. Looking forward to more videos
Thank you! It was such a beautiful area. We caught the changing colors at the right time I think! I’m glad you guys are enjoying the videos. Thanks for the feedback! I’ll keep the videos coming.
Nice video - Thanks for sharing. You'll remember trips with your pal the rest of your life.
Thank you! We sure will. Great memories for sure!
This was a real joy to watch! You drove a near-marathon distance to get there, and I'm guessing you'de agree that it was well worth it. This brought back great memories for me from about 28 years ago when my wife and I paddled most of the lakes section in our Old Town Penobscot 17, from Chamberlain Bridge to the southern end of Churchill and back, before starting a family. Those way cool old Ghost Trains were leaning pretty hard toward the Eagle Lake beach back then, being propped up with a number of large Spruce poles to prevent them from tipping over. Glad to see them finally set back upright. You captured the whole experience very nicely here with good editing, peacful vibe, B-roll, narrating and perfect choice of music throughout. You have some of the same firewood processing tools that I use - Snow & Neally's Camp Axe and the Silky Gomboy 240 w/curved blade - excellent pieces of kit!
You two have made some truly great memories here that will undoubtedly last a lifetime! Wish I could have done the entire trip like you did, but am grateful that you shared your trip with us so I can now see how beautiful the rest of the Waterway really is. BTW, that's me in the Profile Pic with a hungry friend 🐦at Baker Lake in '04, not too terribly far from where you started your trip. Thanks for sharing this terrific vid with us, and wishing you ATVB! 🐀
Thanks! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Haha we sure did, and you are guessing correctly - ABSOLUTELY worth it! That area is just so beautiful. Thanks for sharing that memory. That’s one of my favorite parts about posting these videos is getting to connect with people and share those memories. I love watching other people do trips like this for that same reason. Glad that our trip was able to help you relive your trip a bit!
Thank you for the kind comments! I enjoy retelling the story and using the shots and music to try my best to give it the feel I had while I was out there. I’m glad you connected with it.
Yes! The Snow & Neally and Silky Gomboy are amazing! They make processing wood a breeze.
Glad to be able to share the rest of the waterway with you! I hope you can go back and do the rest of it sometime. I sure hope I can make it back up to northern Maine before too long. That profile pic is amazing! I love it. Glad you got that picture! All the best!
@@Beyond_The_Treeline 😊❤🙏
Wha a beautiful place to explore, tranquility fresh air nice to camp , see the nature wilderness
It really is a beautiful place!
Awesome video footage. My dad would have loved doing the Alagash, and if he were alive today (he died in Fall of 1996), he would have enjoyed it, even with his macular degeneration. Thank you for taking me along, enjoyed the whole trip with beautiful scenery and your descriptions.
@@joane.landers9151 thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video!
So pristine and beautiful.excellent!
It really is! Such an amazing place. I was so thankful to experience it! Thanks for following along the journey!
This looks awesome!!! I’d absolutely love to do this one day
You should! It’s such an incredible area! Hit me up if you ever want any details on the trip, I’d be happy to help with whatever info I have :)
Great video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching know can't wait ❤
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it!
My brother and I to the Allagash River in Maine about 40.years ago and paper companies one I think was Northern TP clear cut both sides of the river for many miles. Needless to say we didn’t expect that but apparently that was a long time ago and where you were seems really beautiful. Awesome trip and I’d love to experience that myself one dap. Great work.
Wow that’s crazy! I bet it looked so different clear cut. Yea the forest seemed very healthy and alive now, though we did drive through many logging areas on our way in. I hope you get to go back and experience it again! It’s a special place. Thanks for watching along!
Anyone else catch the fish jumping up the falls at 9:29 ? Awesome video though, planning our trip now for this coming summer I can’t wait
Yea crazy right!!!? I didn’t even see it till I was editing haha. It really surprised me. But super cool to actually watch a fish jumping up a waterfall!
Glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching. You’re going to have a blast! The Allagash is such a special place! Keep me posted, I’d love to hear your stories :)
Nice job!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Nicely done guys!
Thank you!
Great video. Some of my best memories are up in the north woods. Moose hunting, fishing trips or just a week of silence, its always such a good time. After seeing this video i'm dreaming about doing the same thing with a kayak. Maybe someday.
Thanks! So true, the north woods are always a good time. So peaceful. Glad the video brought back some memories! I hope you can do that trip someday with the kayak. It’s such a cool area.
@@Beyond_The_Treeline I'm hoping so too, it looks well worth it. The most kayaking I've ever done was a 26 mile trip that lasted from sun up to down. Definitely will need some conditioning to do this! How often did you fellas have to portage?
@@gromp3164 definitely! Yea paddling sunup to sundown is a lot though. 26 miles in a day is no joke! There aren’t too many portages on this route. If I remember correctly, there were only 5. None of them were very long either. I think the one long one was around a half mile. That’s the one from Chamberlain to Eagle Lake. But if you want to skip that portage, you can go a little further south and run a little channel that puts you at the far southern end of Eagle Lake.
@@Beyond_The_Treeline dang, pretty ideal long trip then. Thanks for the replies, the seed has been planted lol. Have a great day.
@@gromp3164 totally! It’s rare to find a long distance river/lake combo with that few portages. Something you could easily do kayaking too. I would just recommend skipping that long portage with a kayak. Glad to chat about it! I hope you get to do it. Message me anytime if you have questions I can help with!
Where was your gear as you paddled the rapids?
Great video...
Good question! The rangers at Churchill Dam offered to shuttle our gear past the rapids for us for $10. We originally weren’t planning to, but figured it gave us a bit of the peace of mind and allowed us to just focus more on running the rapids. Don’t get that option too often!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks.
Awesome! I’ve been to Maine, but not that far north. I was at Sebago Lake.
Yea it was so beautiful! That was my first time in Maine and I want to go back and explore more! It’s such an incredible state.
2 different Maines , Sebago is a great area but the County is a different place
@@recentlyretired ah yea I see, right outside Portland. The the state changed a lot from south to north. Cool to see the transition.
Immediate subscribe. Nice to see more and more canoe camping channels pop up. My buddy and I are planning to paddle half of Ohio next year (unfortunately lake erie doesn't really connect with the Ohio river in the southern part of the state, or we'd try the whole thing). Nice video! Highly recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in northern Minnesota. It gives you a lot of that early fur trade era canoe history of the voyageurs
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying! The Ohio sounds like an incredible trip! Keep me posted on that. How long will that trip be? Yes I love the BWCA! That’s where I fell in love with canoe tripping. Funny enough I’m actually editing a video right now of a BWCA trip I just got back from. So I’ll be posting that here in a few weeks hopefully. Great to meet a fellow canoe tripper!
@@Beyond_The_Treeline I believe it'll be about 110 miles. We've done the first leg of it to test how far we can reasonably go in a day. I worked up at the national park there last summer and we'd get off work and just paddle and explore islands up there. Fell in love with canoeing after that, just need to eventually get a lighter canoe. We got an old aluminum one on FB marketplace for $225
@@saucycardinal3322 that’ll be incredible! Let me know how it goes! Sounds like a great time at the national park too. How fun to just be able to paddle around and explore after work! Nothing wrong with a $225 canoe! Will there be a lot of portaging? Speaking of the Boundary Waters, this spring I bought a used kevlar canoe from an outfitter in Ely. It was definitely the way to go for buying a canoe. Like 50% off retail price and in great condition. Highly recommend if you find yourself on the market for one in the future!
Well, you can disregard my question. I should have read the comments before posting. Haha. That made total sense to let the rangers transport your gear. I really enjoyed watching your trip through the Allagash. I live in Central Maine and love the beauty of this state, especially the County. You guys work together well as a team. I do have one curious question though. What did you do with your gear while you navigated the rapids below Church Hill dam?
Hey all good! Yea having the rangers transport the gear was great. We weren’t expecting it but it was nice to just focus on the rapids. That area is truly incredible! It’s so beautiful and an amazing part of the country. Thanks! We’ve known each other for a long time and we have been seeing that cooperation coming out well in these trips. We enjoy paddling together for sure!
Terrific video, thanks. Nice job lining your way through the trouble spots. I’m curious what you wear, if anything, for wet/dry suit (pants, top), when wading. I notice you paddled some of the heavier rapids, below Churchill Dam without your gear loaded. - smart. How did you get your gear sync’d back with you? Is there a portage path along side that stretch? We’re planning an Allagash trip for early Fall.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Ah man, I want to go back, it’s so beautiful in fall! You’ll have an amazing trip. Are you planning to start at Johnson Pond or Chamberlain Lake, or somewhere else? I honestly don’t have anything in the way of dry suits yet. I’ve really been eyeing some but haven’t decided to drop the money on one yet. Typically I wear neoprene socks and shoes so my feet stay warm. I usually just wear something quick dry for pants since I tend to plan on being in and out of the water during lining. I don’t typically mind if my legs are wet during the day, unless it’s really cold out then I’m more cautious about being in and out of the water. But as long as I keep my core dry it doesn’t bother me to be wet during the day. I guess I’ve just kinda gotten used to it haha.
Thanks, that makes sense regarding quick-dry pants; will likely do the same. We have an AWW guidebook arriving in the mail today. We initially thought we’d start at Chamberlain Lake, but we really enjoyed your route, so we’re unsure. We’ll likely have our little Chocolate Lab (65 lbs) along with us, which affects canoe choice. Old Town Discovery 158 (heavy tank) if Lab comes along; or Old Town Hunter (much lighter) if Lab stays home. (Funny; our Lab, Stella, watched portions of your video when she heard familiar sounds, like geese)
@@rcote1234 you got it! If you have any other questions I can help with I’d be happy to share anything I learned from our trip. The guide books are super helpful! I did love doing Johnson pond and Allagash Lake. The creek was beautiful and it just felt really remote and secluded. From a canoe standpoint, I have a Nova Craft Prospector and it’s 85lbs. It did great and wasn’t too bad for portaging since none of them are that long. It’ll be fun having a dog along! I love that Stella watches part of it! I have two little Westies and they will watch some of the canoeing videos I watch and love all the sounds too. It’s funny!
Was just talking to a friend about doing this trip. Where would you put in if you wanted to cut the trip fown to like 4-5 days?
Hmm, you really got me thinking hard here haha. It’s tough because both ends are so beautiful. But if I had to pick for a 4-5 day, I’d just do the first half of what we did. Start at Johnson Pond and take-out at the north end of Umsaskis Lake. Some of our favorite parts of the trips were Allagash Lake and Allagash Stream. The lakes up there are stunning, and then you’d still get the best whitewater stretch below Churchill Dam. I think that would be doable in 5 days.
@@Beyond_The_Treeline awesome thanks!
@@taylorfriberg3620 you got it! If you have any other questions I can help with, feel free to reach out!
Just hope no wild animals like bears, beautiful place to explore
As a person who has lived in Maine for 50+ years, I can tell you that there are plenty of black bears, but no rattlesnakes.
real cool place. what time of the year did u go?
It really is a beautiful place! We went the last week of September into the first week of October. Great time of year if you’re up for some cooler temps. We hardly saw anyone at all. Felt like we had the whole place to ourselves.
Beautiful video! What were the dates of your trip?
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it! We were on the water from Sep 26 - Oct 5 of 2022. It was gorgeous that time of year. I did this trip before starting this RUclips channel, so I’m kinda playing some catch-up to get to some of my more recent trips.
Did someone haul the gear for you from churchill dam to 1st campsite
Yep! It was nice. Wasn’t originally planning to do it, but it was nice having the peace of mind and being able to just focus on the rapids.
What time of year did you do this trip
We did it in late September to early October of 2022. Beautiful time to go. The weather and colors ended up being perfect!
Great adventure. The cheesy background music completely kills it for me, sorry guys.
Where was your gear while you ran the rapids?
So there were some rangers at Churchill Dam that offered to shuttle our gear past the rapids for us. I think it’s like $5 or $10 but we figured it gave us a bit of the peace of mind and allowed us to just focus more on running the rapids.
@@Beyond_The_Treeline that's awesome and definitely worth it.
@@johnnylyons9602 for sure. Was a nice little surprise! Something you don’t get too often for sure haha.
How did you retrieve your car?
Great question! We had an outfitter shuttle it for us. So we just coordinated it all ahead of time and they picked it up from Johnson Pond while we were paddling and had it waiting for us at Fort Kent.
@@Beyond_The_Treeline What outfitter did you yall use? would love to do a trip like this soon! great video btw
@@noahkironclad5048 you should! And if you do let me know about it. I’d love to hear your stories :) We used Allagash Guide Services. They were great! Gave us a lot of helpful info during the planning stages and really know the area super well. Shuttling with them was super easy too. We had them pick up our car and drop it for us but they will also shuttle you and your gear if that option works better. Would highly recommend them!
@@Beyond_The_Treeline Awesome! thanks for the info. will for sure follow up once we make it happen!
@@noahkironclad5048 you got it! Happy planning!
Nice jobs and thanks a lot, are you allowed? Kissing Canadian rocks."?
lol, not sure, but we were there so we did it haha 😂 Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
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