The Allagash | 10 Day Wilderness Trip in the North Maine Woods | Part 1 

That’s amazing! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching along! I love connecting with people through these memories and hearing their experiences. You have a beautiful hometown! I loved all of northern Maine! I bet winter is a very special experience in the north woods. Thanks for connecting!

Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoy it. Thanks for watching!

It’s a beautiful area! What a cool place to grow up in!

It definitely was!

@@buckchase1 thank you for the encouragement! And thanks for sharing your beautiful state! What an incredible place. It was a long drive but totally worth it! We used the National Geographic topo maps. There’s an Allagash north and south map and they were very helpful.

It’s a pleasure! Love getting to share experiences and exchange stories with others who enjoy the outdoors like us. Good question! We did actually have life jackets. Just didn’t wear them all the time. They were sitting right at our feet if we weren’t wearing them. We usually threw them on before going through rapids or big open water. Yikes! That’s no joke! I’ll definitely check that out. Thanks again for joining along!

@@Beyond_The_Treeline yes please do so ! 2019 June 4th have fished with Larry Fiori many, many times in the Great State of Maine and have had lunch and dinner with his brother Mike a couple of times in Maine!! Keep up the Great Stuff guys!!

Haha yea it was definitely a trek… I’ll be honest, it sounded a lot better of an idea on the front end 😂 I’m a big road tripper, but after that 35hr drive one way, we decided that was maybe a little too much for future trips lol. Worth it though!

@@robgerety thanks! Yea we felt like we would have miss out on so much by skipping out on Johnson Pond and the creek/river sections. It’s absolutely beautiful through there!

Yes! Im glad you caught it. But I didn’t see it till I was editing the video! I was pretty surprised. I thought it was such a cool shot!

It truly is! It has a familiar feeling, but a uniqueness that’s like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. Well said!

Thank you! So glad you’re enjoying them. Also I love meeting others who appreciate nature the way I do! So thanks for watching and commenting!

Hey! Thanks for the sub and I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos! No all good, this is my good friend Chase that I grew up with. You’ll probably see him in several of the videos. I have a few people who come with me on these trips but he’s normally on the big ones.

I didn’t publish our route, but happy to share it! Here’s what we did. The hardest part was finding Johnson Pond in the dark haha, but here’s the GPS coordinates for where we started: 46.315282, -69.580463. From there we paddled through Allagash Stream into Allagash Lake, continued east into the rest of Allagash Stream and camped at Little Allagash Falls on Little Round Pond. Paddled to Eagle Lake and camped there on Farm Island. Paddled north to Churchill Lake and camped there at the Jaws Campsite just above Churchill Dam. Ran the Chase Rapids below the dam and camped where the river empties into Umsaskis Lake. Then paddled to Round Pond and camped there. Then paddled to Allagash Falls and camped there. After the Allagash merged with the St John River, we just picked a good gravel bar to camp for the last night and then took out at the Fort Kent boat ramp at Riverside Park. If you have any other questions I’d love to provide any additional detail!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

It was! Thanks for joining along and for the comments!

@@Beyond_The_Treeline My pleasure

That’s awesome! It’s such a beautiful area. Thanks for watching along and for the comment!

Couple of reasons. One, we really liked the remoteness that Johnson Pond starts you off on. It fully immersed us from the first paddle stroke. Also, it allowed us to paddle most of Allagash Stream which was a fun and unique part of the whole trip. We also got to explore the ice caves on Allagash Lake. We felt starting at Johnson Pond gave us quite a bit of diversity right at the start. And I’m glad we did because those first couple of days were some of our favorite! Out alternative and backup plan was to put-in at the south end of Chamberlain Lake if the rangers thought Allagash Stream was too low. We ended up still lining a lot, but it was totally worth it in our minds.

I currently live in Oklahoma, but I grew up all over the place. So a lot of my regular trips are around here in Arkansas or New Mexico. But I have family in Minnesota so I get up there multiple times a year. I usually try to get further out for a trip at least once a year.

It’s a paddling term for the starting point where you put the boat in the water.

Thanks for watching!

@@jefflanham1080 thank you! Glad you enjoy the channel. Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I love sharing these stories and connect with people over them, and I’m glad it’s inspiring! Thanks for the comment!

It was a blast! Some really fun sections of river for sure. Thanks for watching!

Thanks!

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@@vdpeer there weren’t any the time of year we went. We were there in late September and early October, so thankfully no black flies!

Oh trust me, we definitely had our PFDs. We wore them a lot, just took them on and off.

Enjoyed the video on the Allagash and Boundary Waters. Did BW some years ago. Spectacular! I only mad the PFD comment because here in Clorado, we see people die every year because they have them but dont wear them. There are folks that see you vids and think if you dont wear them, they dont have to. Maybe a comment in your next vid would help. Lived in Maine 14 years. Loved to visit Ft Kent when I was at Loring FB in the 70's. Keep Paddling

@@glenndotter5065 glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching and commenting! I totally get ya. I’ve definitely had my moments where I’ve been glad to have been wearing mine. Good idea! They are definitely life savers and I’m a big proponent.

It truly was! Lots of great memories from it. Thanks for watching along!

I get ya. But what has inspired me a lot over the years are some guys I’ve gotten into watching who do long multi-part episodes. I really enjoy having something to come back to every week and watch. I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea, so I do a bit of both. If you want the whole story, jump to The Allagash Full Documentary. When I do episodes I’ll also include the full story for those who just want it all in one place. Thanks for the feedback and for watching!

Interesting. Good to know! That’s funny the maps (at least all the ones we had) didn’t designate that.

@@Beyond_The_Treeline you’re right and that’s what the map shows but I used to fish big eagle, round pond and Churchill a few times every summer. I grew up in northern Maine and town called Ashland.

@@Beyond_The_Treeline i’m sitting here watching all the rest of your videos on the Allagash like I’m watching more than two locomotives are right now and I’m gonna continue to watch the rest today and then I’ll move onto the rest of your videos. They’ll all get thumbs up. thank you for coming up to my state and enjoying the beautiful activities we have up here

@@Beyond_The_Treeline oh I moved to Bangor Maine in 1989 bought a house in Orrington Maine 6 miles out of Bangor Brewer and I’m still here ha ha ha I married a wonderful beautiful woman back in 1991 from Bangor. We went on to have two beautiful sons and we’reboth close to retirement now.

@@Phat-khat that’s awesome! I love learning those little nuances of geography. Something only a local would know. Thanks for sharing that bit of info. That area is so beautiful. You’re lucky to have grown up and live up there!