My winter exploration trip was great fun and as we returned to the Yukon the conversation turned to how much the clients 
liked being on the “old fashioned” snowshoes. That got me to thinking about how long things that work well can last. I do use wood framed snowshoes; most are laced with leather. The snowshoes that the kids were on that afternoon are around thirty five years old!
Late winter is the time of year when I think about the trips that Maine Outdoors offers. Which ones to drop and what to add that is new different and interesting. As part of that effort I have been working with someone writing ad copy for my ads. Hearing someone else’s perspective is always interesting but in the case of Maine Outdoors it is a perspective on something that I have created, nurtured and built over the last twenty six years.
We live in an area made up of dairy farms, blueberry fields and woodlots along with lots of bodies of water. Because of the farms the early stockings of wild turkeys took place here thirty years ago. Turkeys had been extirpated from Maine long before and the reintroduction was an experiment at the time.
