. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . are passed sixmiles below the Half-way house. There is rare good trout fishing upalong this stream, and two or three days could be profitably used up onthis side trip. Chesuncook lake, 18 miles long, receives the West branch waters atits northern end. Here tents are pitched for the first night out fromNortheast carry. If the voyager is going down the East branch or theAllagash he paddles across the head of the lake, up Umbazookskus On Chamberlain Lake. Stream, totes across Mud pond carry, and drops his can
. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . are passed sixmiles below the Half-way house. There is rare good trout fishing upalong this stream, and two or three days could be profitably used up onthis side trip. Chesuncook lake, 18 miles long, receives the West branch waters atits northern end. Here tents are pitched for the first night out fromNortheast carry. If the voyager is going down the East branch or theAllagash he paddles across the head of the lake, up Umbazookskus On Chamberlain Lake. Stream, totes across Mud pond carry, and drops his canoe into thewaters of Chamberlain lake. If he is to keep on the West branchwaters, he works along down the long lake, following the west shore forthe first half of the way, crossing where the lake is narrowest and con-tinuing along the east shore until the outlet is reached. During this tripthe canoeist gets a magnificent view of Mt. Katahdin, looming upmassively, grandly, many miles to the east. Chesuncooks shores aremostly low, with rocks at the water line ; the lake has no Exfloring. Sometimes West branch voyagers make the side trip from Chesun-cook to Caribou lake, going up a thoroughfare two miles long, enteredfrom the west shore of Chesuncook. A camp is located on Cariboulake, in a good fishing neighborhood. Harrington lake, one of Mainesbest trout waters, is another locality to be reached from lies north of Ripogenus, and is at the end of a seven-mile tote froma point on Chesuncook just above the outlet. A horse is usually kepthere in summer to haul canoes over the carries in this neighborhootl. Ripogenos Waters. 89 At the foot of Chesuncook a dam bars farther progress by water, butit is only half a mile by carry around into Ripogenus lake. Camp maybe made easily at either end of the carry. Swinging down to the foot of Ripogenus lake, the longest carry onthe whole trip must be made. It is a jaunt of three miles around theRipogenus gorge and arches,
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