Voices from the Trail
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Day Tripping in Vermont
By Karrie Thomas, NFCT Executive Director Where can you go for a day trip on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in Vermont to paddle two rivers (about seven miles) and not have to run a shuttle? It’s not a trick question:…
ENEL Volunteer Day: Highgate Falls Portage, VT
By Walter Opuszynski, NFCT Trail Director In recent months, the Northern Forest Canoe Trail has been working with landowners associated with the Sheldon Springs Dam portage on the Missisquoi River in Vermont to officially endorse and improve…
Canoeing the Clyde River with Kids
By Karrie Thomas Where would you take a two and five year-old for their first canoe trip on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail? Culley and I decided to start with the Clyde River in Vermont out of Island Pond. Our…
Back in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
By Walter Opuszynski The State of Maine has contracted the Northern Forest Canoe Trail to perform user impact assessments at all the campsites throughout the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW). NFCT interns will collect some of the data using the same…
NH-ME Trail Maintainer Jamboree-2014
By Walter Opuszynski Talk about community! What an amazing time was had at the 2014 NH-ME Trail Maintainer Jamboree! We had a strong turnout and the on-again off-again weather did not deter spirits at all. This year’s NH-ME Jamboree was…
Adirondack Canoe Classic: Paddling the 90-Miler for Kids
In September 2013, Heidi Kretser joined paddlers in an 8-person Voyageur war canoe in the Adirondack Canoe Classic (a.k.a. 90 Miler), a 3-day race held every year since 1983. The team “Canoeing for the Kids” raised $4,100…
Life Lessons from the Northern Forest Canoe Trail: A Second Grade Classroom’s Perspective
By Sarah Carlson On one of her visits home last fall my daughter, Emma Carlson, told me of her desire to through paddle the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Part of the conversation centered around her plan to share…
NFCT Says No to Transporting Tar Sands Oil Across Our Route
By Kate Williams Missisquoi. Connecticut. Androscoggin. I say these words as I write them, and recognize that what I feel for these rivers is love. As Executive Director of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), I have spent the last…
NFCT Field Crew Halftime Show
By Walter Opuszynski We are halfway through our slated field projects and the NFCT Stewardship Intern Crew has been working at a break neck pace. They have been traveling across the the Trial performing stewardship activities that will make it…
Paddler Trip Safety: 7 Steps to Prepare
By Walter Opuszynski Paddlers know that our corridors of travel are unpredictable environments. The water levels can change rapidly with rainfall making what was a Class 2 rapid into a Class 3. There could be a strainer just around the…