Trip 2 – Canoeing Day Trip
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TRIP 2: Enjoy a paddling day trip & a visit to the Boom House, this trip is based on Thoreau’s 1846 September trip to The Maine Woods. Paddle the scenic West Branch of the Penobscot River putting in at Little or Big Omaha Beach into the Debsconeag Deadwater and paddling through Passamagamet Lake and into Ambajejus Lake. Visit the Ambajejus Boom House which was used by River Drivers during the logging operations in the early 1900s. Today, it is a National Historic Register Property and a museum. Lakeside Lunch is provided by the River Driver’s Restaurant on Ambajejus Lake. This trip is guided by a registered Maine Guide and canoe equipment and gear are provided by NEOC. Canoe instruction can be provided also at the start of the trip if necessary. Cost $99/per person, 4 person minimum.
“Ambejijis, this quiet Sunday morning struck me as the most beautiful lake we had seen. It is said to be one of the deepest. We had the fairest view of Joe Merry, Double Top and Ktaadn, from its surface. The summit of the latter had a singularly flat, table land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an afternoon, to settle his dinner… Our breakfast consisted of tea, with hard bread and pork and fried salmon, which we ate with forks neatly whittled from Adler-twigs, which grew there, off strips of Birch-bark for plates.”