

The Legacy of Outdoor Kids
During a recent canoe trip to the Northern Maine Woods and Allagash Region in Maine, I found ample time to reflect on my life growing up in this outdoor sanctuary. The guests that I had the honor of guiding on this trip were particularly independent and “early to bed, early to rise” gentlemen, which allowed for solitude in front of our campfire with the crackling of split deadwood and the breeze overhead in the pines of our Donnely Point patrol base. During these moments, my