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Trip 1: Allanwater Trip 2: ??
Left to right, back row: Steve Springgate (staffman), Andrew Houghton, Dave Gidley, John O'Brien. Front row: Chuck Conklin, Sam Conant, Alfred Donovan, Allen Collins, Duffy Romans. Missing: Tadd Clarkson (guide). East-West Passage Section cut the East-West Passage and named the Shire campsite in honor of the Hobbit. Caribou On
Savant Lake we surprised a swimming woodland caribou and chased it with
the intent of riding the beast. It alluded us by escaping to an island. We
surrounded the island "lord of the flies" style, trying to
corral it (I'm not sure why). It ended up charging right at me, giving me quite a scare, and plunging back into the lake. Caribou can swim fast. I know because it easily out-distanced Sam Conant and I, when we tried to overtake it in a canoe — and we were a strong pair of souped-up 15-year-olds in a Chestnut Cruiser. — John O'Brien Gidley's Run Gidley's
run is a swampy bug-ridden portage into the east side of Kawaweogama Lake
where the Outpost is located. Returning from our first trip that summer, a
wet year, the end of the portage was a veritable muskeg pond. Everyone
took great care to skirt the mud hole, stumbling over hummocks of moss,
lab tea and spruce stumps, but not Dave. The bugs must have been real bad,
because instead of slowing to negotiate the obstacle, Gidley accelerated.
This while carrying a wannigan probably weighing near what he did. He
appeared to skip like a rock across that quicksand, defying gravity, and
breaking several other laws of physics to finish the portage in true
Keewaydin style. The otherwise unremarkable portage was known ever after as "Gidley's Run," a tribute to his unusual, but effective gamble. — John O'Brien
CONTRIBUTORS: John O'Brien
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