The good folks at North Maine Woods just called to say someone turned in my tent, which I lost on a dump in the Penobscot. Are there any members up near Millinocket who might retrieve it for me and ship it at my expense?
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Anyone Up By Millinocket, Maine??
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That is incredible. Must be a sign of good karma or clean living. Or something. Did you have some contact info on the tent, or just ask them to keep an eye out?
I have golf club labels with name and e-mail on all of our boats and paddles and hard sided stuff
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/...ddles-and-gear
And key tags on all of the tent and tarp bags to help identify the contents when pulling gear off the storage shelves.
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/...stuff-bag-tags
It would not be that hard to add a slip of paper with name and contact info to the underside of those key tags.
EDIT: Hopefully they have done you the favor of airing the tent out for you. Otherwise. . . . .
I have golf club labels with name and e-mail on all of our boats and paddles and hard sided stuff
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/...ddles-and-gear
And key tags on all of the tent and tarp bags to help identify the contents when pulling gear off the storage shelves.
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/...stuff-bag-tags
It would not be that hard to add a slip of paper with name and contact info to the underside of those key tags.
EDIT: Hopefully they have done you the favor of airing the tent out for you. Otherwise. . . . .
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Dumb luck. No label. I called them a week AFTER the mishap and left my name and number and told them where about I lost it (up stream of Pine Stream). They put up sign at the checkpoints saying to keep an eye out for a lost tent. They called today from Carribou checkpoint via satellite phone. Said 2 guys found it down by Boom House just before the lake and turned it in. She asked me to describe the tent and luckily I knew the make model. She said it looks to be in good shape.
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A good news story! Did you lose any other gear? I was on the Middle Fork of the Flathead in Montana once. A tandem boat in our group went over, and they lost the group table. Nothing else, though.
Everything was free floating down the river at one point, but we recovered it all except the tent while we were still on the river.
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I'm alway curious why capsizes occur when canoe tripping. How did you happen to find yourself in the water?
Wish I knew. We were going through some very easy looking rapids and hit something neither my bowman nor I saw. We were instantly overturned.
Absolutely! Next Saturday...We are going to Katahdin Woods and Waters NM for the annual Star Party on Saturday night and going up during the day. And we will come back Sunday afternoon.. Is it in a place where its retreivable on those potentially non working days?
Yellowcanoe: The call actually came from Peggy at Caribou checkpoint on the Golden Road. I think the checkpoint is open 7 days a week from 6 AM to 9 PM
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OK..We can come home that way.. Over the Golden to the Kokadjo Road. Tell Peggy to hang on to it! We will be going to Missouri via Hagerstown MD on the 13th.. Gaithersburg is the wrong way but if you can rendezvous on Sat about noonish no mailing required We are driving via 81 to 70
However mailing could be easier.. The search for a box maybe not so much.
Tell Peggy that Jim and Kim Gass will be there and can produce ID.
And its likely they can't air out the tent..We can spread it out while transporting.
However mailing could be easier.. The search for a box maybe not so much.
Tell Peggy that Jim and Kim Gass will be there and can produce ID.
And its likely they can't air out the tent..We can spread it out while transporting.
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This is amazing Kim!
I should be able to meet you around noonish on the 13th, wherever is convenient for you (Hagerstown is an hour or less drive from my place). If you would rather mail, I obviously will pay. I will send you a PM with my phone, etc.
I should be able to meet you around noonish on the 13th, wherever is convenient for you (Hagerstown is an hour or less drive from my place). If you would rather mail, I obviously will pay. I will send you a PM with my phone, etc.
Thanks for contact info.. We can surely rendezvous!
I do think in light of where you canoed and your adventure or mis adventure you need something from this lady
Woman makes art from moose poop
A woman in Maine makes art from the poop that moose leave behind.
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Moose poop arts and crafts. Original, for sure.
Kind of a big tent. REI Kingdom 4. But whatever you can do is appreciated.
LOL.. We have a car camping tent.. LL Bean King Pine 4. same size probably same tent.. Now I understand.... why it sunk... Boy would I like to learn how it got from Boom House to Caribou.. (maybe in a vehicle from Chesuncook). I wonder how it got from upstream of Pine Stream to Boom House.. some three miles!
If tents could talk I'd pit the FBI on yours!
I hear they are kind of all booked up for the next week....
Update: Tent has been retrieved from North Maine Woods. According to my paddling partner on the trip, it was in the same condition as when we packed it. Very slightly damp (which it was when it was packed away), but no mildew or smell. I can't really explain how that could basically be dry given its dunking and trip down the river. It must have washed up on shore and been left high and dry as the water levels continued to drop. The tent pegs and footprint, which were in an exterior pocket on the tent bag, are AWOL but I can replace those on the cheap. I got very, very lucky.
Maybe the guy who found it had a little tiny tent and wanted to experience a little luxury for a night and set it up and used it. It would have been a win win.
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Must be clean living; I really expected that tent to smell like a vomitorium. Maybe someone did you the favor of airing it out before repacking it. Or, as Al suggests, “I’m carrying it out, I’m gonna set it up and, dayum, I’m a gonna sleep in it”.
I would have set it up out of sheer curiosity, and to air it out in case it was a no-owner found-me-a tent keeper. Good pay it forward karma, especially to the finders for turning it in. Was the tent in a dry bag, or just in the tent bag?
About the footprint, if you don’t want to spend XXX$ on a manufactured footprint you can DIY one just as good (or better) using some thick Visqueen plastic sheeting with scalloped edges and pole foot stakeouts using duct tape with grommets.
P6220935 by Mike McCrea, on Flickr
P6220936 by Mike McCrea, on FlickrAnd it is an opportunity to upgrade the stakes if that needed doing. Guy lines too, with reflective cord.
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