LITTLE DAVE ON THE BIG RIVER

CAMP SITE LIFE

Turk Island Site

Sweeney Brook Site

Night Life

LOMBARD LOG HAULERS

Big Dave's pictures of the Lombard Log Haulers at Cunliffe Depot. Lombard stopped production in 1917. They had a factory in Waterville. The first pictures are Steam
powered and the others are gas powered. Charlie and Willie are checking out the Lombard.

BIG DAVE'S CAMERA SHOTS OF OUR PORTAGE

Big Dave's pictures of our portage around Allagash Falls. The ice at the end was a surprise.

It was a 6 ft. drop to the river at the end.

SCENIC VIEWS FROM RIVER

Scenic view of river when calm and a view of Henderson Brook Bridge.

MORE TRIP PICTURES

Ring Bolt on portage trail. This was used along with block and tackle and 2 horses to haul the loggers horse boats up the trail and around Allagash Falls. The boats were 40ft. long and 8ft. wide at the bottom. c.1700s to 1930.

MORE PICTURES OF TRIP

Look what happens when you don't bear proof your food.

One bear came at night and one in the daytime.

MORE TRIP PICTURES

Big Dave's pictures of Allagash Falls.

MORE TRIP PICTURES

More pictures of our trip from our Crew. These are from Big Dave.
Big Dave's view from rear seat of canoe.

In the front is his son Willie.

Big Dave and Scott taking a break.

NEW LINK TO SAVED SPOT PAGE

Try this link to new spot adventure pages for Allagash Askew 2k10.
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view/?trip_id=200508

Sorry

My spot track locations (Allagash Askew) have timed out. They only post them for one week.

THE CREW

Scott, Whitebeard, Chris, Marko, Dave, Charlie, Jack, Willie
Now for the 500+ mile ride home and a shower. I have 3 hours of video to edit next,tent and tarps to dry, coolers to clean, gear to put away and stories to tell when I get home.

THE THREE M'S

The three M's at take out in the town of Allagash. Two Mailers and one Machinist. Chris,me,and Marko

KILL AND GRILL

We practiced catch and release with the short Brookies and chubs. Legal size Brookies are a different story all together. A good friend lent me a smoker to use if fish where caught. Worked great and will borrow it again for the next time, and there will be a next time.

STAYED AT ALLAGASH FALLS TWO DAYS

As planned we spent two days at the Allagash Falls site. Great weather but still 28 Deg. at night. Maybe my thermometer is broken. I wear a N.E. Patriots knit hat to bed. Bloody Marys in morning. Captains at night. The portage at the falls is 1/3 of a mile. My canoe carrier works fine and everyone was happy with how it worked. I asked for ideas for improvements. Some said a motor and a steering wheel. I wanted a drink holder. The big surprise awaited us at the end of the portage. Six foot deep ice and snow with canvases to cross to get to the beach and river.

ON TO ALLAGASH FALLS

Another nice day along the AWW. Tried to fish, video, paddle, take pictures,and not run in to rocks in the white water. Did not work out for me. Had to give up something. It ended up me giving up my paddle. It got stuck under a rock and was pulled from my hand in the white water. Yes, I broke out the spare I had secured with Velcro and recovered my floating away paddle with out incident. Saw moose along the shore and an eagle swooping down and catching a fish, unlike me who caught tree limbs with my fly.

TURK ISLAND

Great campsite, fiddle heads for a snack, flat and smooth grassy tent sites, dry, but still 28 Deg. at night. Fishing is slow except for chubs.

A NEW DAY SUN

I forgot to mention that it has been 28 Deg. in the tent the last two nights. Frozen water to start my coffee in the morning. It also snowed the first night. Fishing has been slow. Did not bring my ice fishing gear. After a few runs in white water, I feel confident to leave up my video on the tripod when running them.

SWEENEY BROOK CAMP SITE

Now I know how Long Lake got its name. Not much current shows in the lake but lots of wind. We had to portage around Long Lake dam after almost loosing Jack's canoe attempting to line it over the old wood timbers and spikes in the current. Marko having a drink at our stop for the night at the Sweeney Brook site. Scott, Jack, and Dave keeping dry under the tarps.

SAM'S

This is my home for the next five nights. This camp site is just a few miles up Long Lake on the West shore. Windy and wet the whole way (so no pictures just video). 2 canoes with 2 men each and 4 canoes going solo. The gear really fills up the canoe. Rain gear does not leak. I hope you are following the link (Allagash Askew) to my Spot pages. If you use the satellite or terrain mode of the map and zoom in you can see just where we are.

UNLOADING ON THE AWW

11 A.M. met up with the rest of our crew. Unloaded gear and canoes on Umsaskis lake, the start of out 55 mile trip on the AWW. Rain and cold as expected.

KATAHDIN OUTFITTERS

Arrived at 7:00 A.M. and loaded outfitters truck for ride to AWW.

THE START OF ALLAGASH ASKEW.

Leaving at Oh! dark thirty for a 2 hour ride to outfitter in Millinocket from Mark's camp in Newport.

I am going to need a bigger canoe

Going to need a bigger canoe for my friend, The Captain.

32 Hours until I leave for Marko's camp

This is almost all the gear I am taking to the Allagash. Will do the fresh food shopping on the way home from work Saturday. Will leave for Marko's camp in Newport Maine around 2:00 in the afternoon. Will leave for the outfitters Sunday morning around 4:30 A.M. and drive 100 miles north in my truck with the four of us and all our gear.

4 New Flys

Four more flys to swim the Allagash next week.