Garrett & Alexandra Conover..winter walk 2006

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Garret & Alexandra Conover ...known for their extended winter journeys by travelling the old ways and old river and lake routes throughout Maine and Labrador.... will be travelling Jan 14 thru Feb 11, 2006 for an educational outreach journey of about 400 miles.
The trip leaves from Allagash Maine following the Allagash River and lakes down through Moosehead Lake and ending in Greenville Maine.

(Moosehead Lake, as many may know, is faced with a dismal prospect of becoming the largest devolopment in Maine's history, though I believe the trip was planed before that news)

Authors of the "Snow Walkers Companion" they travell on wooden snowshoes pulling tobaggons. Not much for modern materials they can travell for months at a time in the old ways.

Owners of "The Northwoods Ways" they are river guides in season and winter travell guides when the snow falls and the rivers freeze.

This is living & camping in the winter. They are not mountaineers and understand that people climbing mountains have different parameters to consider, however there is much to learn from these folks.

You can check this trip out at
www.winterwalk2006.org

some very interesting links from that website as well.

Perhaps some of you out there have travelled with them before??

 

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Note that their arrival coincides with the 2nd 100-Mile Wilderness Sled Dog Race and the Greenville Snofest.

Links:

Greenville site
AMC workshops during Snofest

I haven't traveled with the Conovers but I've enjoyed their exhibit setup at the Common Ground Fair. I spoke briefly with Garret this past year at the Fair.

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[spider solo]

tough going for them...

The web site was updated the other day. Now when you go to the map it shows their different campsites. They've been having a tough go of it with all the warm wet weather .
It makes hauling the toboggans plenty difficult plus they have had to get off the river much more than they had hoped.
They call in with a satellite phone and give a daily audio report on the site.
They had excellent wildlife views (Jan 23)..a deer was swimming down the river among other things...I'm sure it was not by choice. More than likely it crashed through the ice trying to escape the coyotes....