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note Maine and Northern Outdoors is like no other place on this earth. :) New

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Re: note Some Great Rafting Carnage From Northern Outoors in Maine maximus New
Re: feedback Nice fun stuff but your guides goto keep the clients holding the T-Grips, dangerous the way they run those holes with .. adriftusa New
Re: note They are always told this, but... maximus New
Re: gack I've never seen so many customers let go of T-grips like in that video. <NT> Bradley New
Date: Apr 30 2007, 12:17 GMT
From: mirage

I first kayaked the Kennebec in 1980 or 81. My first wife and I took vacation up there. We stayed in a B&B for the first weekend and then on Monday we moved up to the Forks, ME for the rest of the 10 days.

We almost didn't come back. :)  We ended up at Crab Apple (Tree?) Inn. They were just getting started. Northern Outdoor's Inn was brand new and they had the largest satellite dish I had ever seen. :)

The story that could be told of N.O., if you knew it all, would be quite a novel. What's his name? The owner? He was a wild man. Gruff, more energy than a PCP overdose, a true life of the partier. :) He was also the inventor of the Banjo Minnow!!!

N.O. is marketed like no other place. If you're on any mailing list you got their 2007 flier last week. Party time! :)

I was up there in 2003 with Wife #2 and it was the same or all different, depending on your point of view. What's his name is no longer there. His wife #1 is running things. And N.O. is still party time and about 75 other things. Winter snowmobiling is real big too.

Anyway, the Kennebec is still a rocking river. (My Avatar is from the Kennebec.) Katadin is still a long way around on dirt roads and still a tough hike. Crab Apple is HUGE and makes me regret I didn't throw in there like I probably could have. :)  

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