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While pursuing another passion of mine, I spent a week at the Ashokan Center in the Catskill Mountains. To my great surprise, suspended above the dining hall was the actual original birch bark canoe described and discussed in John McPhee's book The Survival of the Bark Canoe.
It was too long (or the dining all too short) to get far enough away to get the entire canoe in one photo. But here it is:
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It was too long (or the dining all too short) to get far enough away to get the entire canoe in one photo. But here it is:
![IMG_3029.JPEG IMG_3029.JPEG](https://www.canoetripping.net/data/attachments/32/32865-5b8a626ce1536b0f3819047c11940c2a.jpg?hash=W4pibOFTaw)
![IMG_3030.JPEG IMG_3030.JPEG](https://www.canoetripping.net/data/attachments/32/32866-64d92b5c4a9ea757a8ce6b68a6512968.jpg?hash=ZNkrXEqep1)
![IMG_3032.JPEG IMG_3032.JPEG](https://www.canoetripping.net/data/attachments/32/32867-c3f2d895c0eb1b3b9a0215446bf8b723.jpg?hash=w_LYlcDrGz)