North Woods Ways
Before founding North Woods Ways in 1980, the Conovers had the good fortune of an extended apprenticeship with renowned Maine Guide "Mick" Fahey and have refined their skills by living in Canada with several indigenous families in the bush.
The Conovers have specialized in using traditional wood/canvas canoes with handmade paddles of ash for summer travel, and ash/rawhide snowshoes and handcrafted wood toboggans and canvas heated tents for winter travel. In an age given to the use of ever higher technology, they have chosen to employ, where possible, the more efficient and reliable materials developed by generations of woods travelers. Practicing what they preach, the Conovers live in the North Maine woods in a permanent walled tent.
Read more about this topic: Garrett And Alexandra Conover
Famous quotes containing the words north, woods and/or ways:
“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (1911–1990)
“I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And if I may not walk in th’ old ways and look on
th’ old faces
I wud sooner sleep.”
—Charlotte Mew (1870–1928)