Twenty-Five years earlier Alexandra and Garrett Conover spent their honeymoon snowshoeing from Greenville to Allagash Village in Maine. While the first trip was conducted under the cover of obscurity, the 2005 retracing of the route was a higher profile outreach project conducted on-line so the adventure could be shared with students, organizations, and the public.

The trip provided a fresh look at the Maine woods surrounding Moosehead Lake, the West and North Branches of the Penobscot, and the St. John River; a month-long snowshoe and toboggan celebration of several conservation success stories; human powered traditional travel; and the beauty of the wilds in winter.

Next showing:
March 9th
Center for Northern Studies
Wolcott, Vermont

March 29
Mahoosuc Land Trust
Gould Academy
Bethel, Maine

The De Pas and George Rivers have long cast a siren spell upon northern canoeists. This same spell captured the imaginations of a merry band of snowshoers who eargerly succumbed to the lure of a long winter trail.

Few can resist this jewel of Quebec which starts as a small headwater stream just north of Schefferville, and runs 385 miles to Ungava Bay. By the time it empties into salt water it has grown to stupendous proportions after flowing thorugh range after range of spectacular hills.

Beginning in the middle of February, snowshoes and toboggans stitched a line of tracks along the ice-clad highway of these rivers, following the ever-thinning fringe of trees that flank the river far into the barrens, reaching the Inuit town of Kangiqsualujjuaq in the middle of April. A fabulous joyful passage through a spectacular region during its least traveled season.

March 10
Danville, Vermont

June 15-18
Featured Guests, 9th Annual Wooden Boat & Solstice Festival
North House Folk School
Grand Marais, Minnesota

October 27-29
Midwest Traditional Winter Camping Symposium
Location TBA, Wisconsin

November 10-12
11th Annual Snow Walker's Rendezvous
Hulbert Outdoor Center
Fairlee, Vermont