Over the years I have worked alongside a number of other guides and during the last couple of seasons I have hired a few to help with large groups or when Maine Outdoors has multiple trips going. Most of them are great folks to work with and understand that the primary goal is for clients to have a good time while being safe. Some of them do not understand that being a guide is actually work and that being successful takes more than a license from the state.
Our oldest son Noah is a junior at the College of the Atlantic and he is planning a long backpacking / canoe trip for his senior project. To get ready for that adventure he has been building a strip canoe. Yesterday Argy and I went to Bar Harbor to help place the last few strips. While he is a long way from being finished it is pretty amazing to see the hull completely assembled on the molds. Here we are putting in the last few strips in the bottom.
One of the great things about living where we can see an expanse of sky is that some mornings the day’s weather is clearly spelled out for me. One morning last month I looked out at this sunrise from the front deck and it is very clear that we are in for a day of rain. As the old rhyme goes red sky in morning old guide take warning.
