Charlie Foltz

we met an old logger.

His name was Harry Smith.

Really interesting character.

Told us a lot about the early logging days and log jams and what you had to do to unjam them.

And that was incredibly dangerous because you had to get out there and pry the logs loose until the water could grab them and get everything moving again.

So the Allagash system

still has part of an old railroad that they would go in to the forest, load up with lumber or logs and take them out that way as well.

And now it is all just a recreational environment.

Yeah, 17 days on the water.

And if you're not out at the end of like the 17 or 18 days, then they start trying to find you.

And you guys thought it was a ghost, didn't you?

Harry the Ghost?

Ah.

Wow.

No, no, my dad.

Opposite arms.

Same fracture location.

Institute?

Well, right after we climbed Katahdin, which was the first three days we were in northern Maine, went down to Millinocket and got some supplies, then climbed Katahdin,

Broke camp the next morning, took the supplies we had purchased in Millinocket, and we drove north and east of Baxter State Park to an outfitter at Shin Pond.