Maine Paddling Connection Blog
In the summer I work for a local company called Native Notions doing landscape construction. It’s tough work, but one of the perks is that we’re all paddlers and at the end of each season we take a paddling trip. This year we spent four days exploring Allagash Lake, which isn’t all that big. Because we wouldn’t be paddling miles and miles each day, we got plenty of time to unwind and relax in what is probably the quietest place I’ve ever been in my life.
Read MoreTrish grew up racing Lasers in Canada and her dad still had three of their sailboats in storage up on Grand Manan. For a couple years we’d been dropping hints about how great it would be to have them down here in Belgrade Lakes. Well it finally happened. We’ve had the boats the better part of a year and finally got one of them rigged to sail.
Read MoreWe get out on Long Pond about 4-5 times a week. It’s definitely our favorite of all the lakes in the Belgrade Lakes region, but we’re bias because that’s where we live. Today we opted to paddle south of Castle Island out to the Kettle Hole pond behind Lake Ridge Road. It’s a cool are only accessible by paddle craft.
Read MoreTrish is currently working with two clients on Echo Lake in the Fayette, Readfield, Mount Vernon area. It spans over 1,100 acres and is sometimes called Crotched Lake due to its shape. We launched at the public boat launch on the North end of the lake, across from the ‘smokestack’ and just below the dam that separates it from Taylor Pond.
Read MoreTrish is a real estate agent with Lakepoint Real Estate in Belgrade Lakes. Today, she had a showing on Torsey Lake in Readfield and Mount Vernon so we took the opportunity to paddle the lake and see all it had to offer. We arrived early and since the property is waterfront, I carried or equipment down and paddled around for awhile until she was finished. We paddled the Esquif Avalon today - of all the canoes we own, it’s my favorite tandem canoe.
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