Scouting, Volume 63, Number 1, January-February 1975 Page: 14
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ROOT
IN THE
BACK-
COUNTRY
U/TT You can raise some
Vt L I polite dissent around the
base at Seboomook
with the word "wilder-
ness." The guides
and staff, having col-
lectively wetfooted
thousands of the five
million acres,
know the
Maine National High Adventure Area
too intimately to regard it as a wilder-
ness. So they prefer the term "back-
woods" to describe the surroundings
for their particular brand of high ad-
venture.
"We could pick 10 teenagers off
any street in any town on any day,"
says Kenneth Slade, director of Se-
boomook base, "and the next day they
would be ready to go out on the trail.
That's with one of our guides, of
course, and provided that they want to
learn. A week or so later they would
come back competent canoeists,
good campers and never have been
any less safe than they would be at
home."
That's not bragging. It could be
done, but at Seboomook — pronounce
it S'BOO-muk — it is not likely the
staff that will go out to shanghai a
crew. In 1974, its second season, Se-
boomook was booked solid. So was
the Matagamon base, which became a
national high adventure base in 1971,
after 8 years of development by the
Katahdin Area Council.
Each crew arrives at Seboomook
promptly at 8 o'clock in the morning,
all members surprisingly rested and
refreshed. Then again, not so surpris-
ing, since they have spent the night at
one of three public campgrounds a
few miles from the base. There, they
may have been visited by chief guide
Greg Golgart.
"We figure to tell them how to get
along with the black flies, mosquitoes
and no-see-ums," explains Greg. "It
helps, too, to get in some of our con-
ferencing with the leaders the night
before. Anything we can get done be-
fore they officially arrive helps all of
us."
Getting along with the insects,
especially during the black fly season
is imperative, but easily arranged. It
means a generous coating of insect
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