Charlie Foltz

And at Shin Pond, a friend of ours—in fact, the guy that came down this last Saturday—

we were using one of his canoes.

A friend of ours named Charlie had lent us a Grumman aluminum canoe for our trip and had taken it to Shin Pond, and this guy had it strapped to the pontoon of the airplane.

So he would take two passengers and the gear for those two guys,

And the canoe, that's all you could put in that little plane besides him.

I had a Volkswagen Beetle.

It had a far more complex instrument panel than this airplane had.

I mean, it was as simple as simple could be.

You got a choke, you got an oil pressure gauge and you got a gas gauge and that was it.

Rented one.

Yeah.

Well, the first sighting we saw of it was on our second day on the lake system.

We were on Chamberlain Lake, and that was a lake that runs north-south.

And we were going north, and we were trying to get up to the Allagash River

Or the Allagash Stream, which flows in from Allagash Lake.

And that is totally primitive up there area.

The only way you can get up there is by poling up the river.

And we didn't know how to pole.

But we attempted paddling and paddling, but it didn't do us any good.

However, to get back to the first sighting, we had passed two teenagers on our way north, and they were fooling around on a little island.