Charlie Foltz

Well, uh, that was where I was with my education.

Uh,

Jack and Jim had just graduated from Mass College of Art, I think that year or the year before.

We're average mid twenties, you know, males, you know, uh, we were enjoying the experience of the wilderness.

Uh, we had, uh,

Started planning the trip the previous year, acquiring gear, just slowly accumulating all the gear that we would need.

Plus the meals ready to eat type of pre-packaged food that we brought along with us as well.

Yeah, I was going to college.

I was living in Brookline actually at that time.

And the twins were my next door neighbors, literally.

Just on the other side of the driveway was their house.

Over 50 years.

Yeah, over a half century.

What equipment we needed, what clothing, being prepared for the weather because it was the end of the summer.

And as you may or may not know about New England weather, Mark Twain said, if you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes, it'll change.

And the weather up there at that time was abnormally hot and dry.

It was one of the hottest August at the end of the year that they had had.

So we had gear for the next level degree of coldness was the primary gear that we had.

We, as I said, had climbed Mount Katahdin two days prior to beginning our canoe trip.

And when we were climbing up the mountain, I had to take my blue jeans off