Jane Barron--Paddling Skills. As a Maine Guide, Jane has been guiding canoe trips in Maine for 15 years. She has also done extended trips in Labrador, Quebec, Yukon, and NWT. Jane owns and operates Alder Stream Canvas. She designs and makes camping gear for the outdoors from her home in Kingfield, Maine. Visit Jane's website at http://alderstream.wcha.org/ Geoff Burke--Double Bladed Paddling, Paddle Making, and Lapstrake Canoe Building. Geoff builds beautiful lapstrake canoes and hand carves paddles, and frequently paddles with with a double bladed paddle. A talented artist and canoeist who is a skilled teacher. Shawn Burke--Paddler Development. Shawn is an avid canoe tripper, having paddled many routes in the Northeast and Canada.  His longest paddling adventure to date was a two-month solo venture in Ontario, although he much prefers tripping with his wife Monica and friends.  Shawn is also an avid canoe racer, having paddled downriver and flatwater courses in the Northeast and Midwest including the 70-mile General Clinton and the USCA Nationals.  Shawn has been an organizer and instructor at MCS since 1997.  A Maine native, Shawn and his wife Monica live in Andover, Massachusetts. Buzz Butler--Symposium Organizer. Buzz is a vital member of the MCS Steering Committee and adds a lot of expertise and contagious enthusiam to the organization. Buzz is a co- leader of the MCS Children's program along with Paul Faria, acquiring those skills through many years spent as a boy scout leader, He is a registered Maine Guide and a teacher of outdoor programs in too many organizations in his community.. Gail Butler--Co-MCS Store Manager. Look for Gail at the MCS store in the dining hall. Gail and her co-hort Bill Butman will be glad to sell you this year's T-shirt, one of our staff's many books, videos, knives, and gear. They can also give you directions and answer most quesitons. Bill Butman--Co-MCS Store Manager. Look for Bill at the MCS store in the dining hall. Bill and his store co-hort Gail Butler will be glad to sell you this year's T-shirt, one of our staff's many books, videos, knives, and gear. They can also give you directions and answer most quesitons.   David Butler--Maine Guide and Symposium Organizer. David has degrees in Forest Management from WVU and Computer Science from the Univ. of Maryland. His family includes his wife Tracey, son Douglass and daughter Amanda. All active canoe campers and very at home on Maine's rivers and lakes. His interests include; canoe building, paddle making, fly fishing, ice fishing, beer & wine brewing, winter sports of any kind, and most of all canoe camping in Maine. David is co-owner of Maine Path & Paddle Guides, providing fully guided canoe adventures throughout Maine. Visit their web site at www.CanoeMaine.com.  David Cook--Maine Guide and Canoe Route Historian. David currently is an adjunct instructor at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. He has taught for the last 40 years with the majority of that time spent at Winthrop High School as a history teacher. He is a past president of the Maine Archaeological Society and a member of numerous other such groups. Prior to his teaching career he attended the University of Maine afterward he served three years as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, including one year as an airborne infantryman in Vietnam. David grew up in Milo, Maine and graduated from Milo High School in 1962. In 1985 David published "Above the Gravel Bar" and it went through 3 printings. Then in 2007, it was re-published and is in currently in print. He is very gratified that it seems to keep going with new readers. Zip Kellogg--Canoeist & Researcher. Zip is an active paddler based in Portland, Maine. There are a few bridges in Maine that he has not paddled under but the number is dwindling. He has also paddled (or rafted) in a variety of places on this planet, including the Colorado, the Tatshenshini (Alaska), the Dolores (Colorado & Utah), the Rio Grande, and numerous rivers in Quebec and New Brunswick. He likes paddling. Zip is the author of The Whole Paddler's Catalog and DeLorme's guides to canoeing the rivers of Maine as well as a variety of articles. When not on the rivers he works at the library at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.   Jeff & Lisa Dehart--Traditional Outdoor Skills and Paddling. Jeff and Lisa both hold ACA canoe poling placements; Jeff has won several First to Third placements, and Lisa holds a third in Womens wildwater. They began Guiding about 7 years ago and began re-enacting living history in 1994. They live in West Gardiner, Maine. When not guiding Jeff works for State Waterways setting the bouys on the lakes in Maine. Lisa is an Equity Stage Manager at the Public Theatre in Lewiston, Maine. Dan Eaton--Dan runs The Small Boat Shop in Denmark, Maine. He specializes inthe repair and restoration of wood/canvas canoes and small boats. Dan usually has a demonstation area set up at MCS with a work in progress. Be sure to pay Dan a visit, he is a truly skilled craftsman. Visit Dan's website at: www.smallboat-shop.com.   Paul Faria--Symposium Organizer - Master Maine Guide. Paul is an ACA certified instructor currently teaching paddle sports at LL Bean's Outdoor Discovery School. Paul is a Wilderness First Responder, has trained in swift water rescue, has had courses in Wilderness Education and Leadership, surf zone coastal kayak training, Wilderness Advanced First Aid, and Basic Climbing Skills for Rescuers. He began leading outdoor trips as a Registered Maine Guide in 1999 and has led courses in river canoe and river kayak. Paul directed the Arts in Education and Public Art programs for the State of Maine over a period of 20 years at the Maine Arts Commission. Paul takes on the job of tracking down our MCS evening speakers and presenters each year and along with Buzz Butler is co-leader of the MCS children's program. His other interests include whitewater kayaking, snowshoeing, Nordic and alpine skiing, drawing and sculpture. Paul lives in Pittsfield Maine with his wife Chris, daughter Alexandra, grand daughter Gabriela, their dogs Sasha and Casey and several mice who prefer to remain anonymous. Kim Gass--Freestyle Paddling. Raymond, Maine. Kim is an ACA instructor in tandem flatwater, solo flatwater, and solo freestyle. She also is a Canadian Recreational Canoe Association instructor in flatwater and lakewater(thats the precision paddling solo of a big boat). She teaches at La Louisiane Freestyle Symposium near New Orleans and at the Midwest Freestyle Symposium in Ohio and the Adirondack Freestyle Symposium at Paul Smiths, NY, as well as the annual Wooden Canoe Heritage Association Assembly and Great Camp Sagamore in Raquette Lake NY. She sometimes competes in FreeStyle canoeing. She is a Registered Maine Guide. Kim also works for the Maine Island Trail Association and the Raymond, Maine Fire Department. Gil Gilpatrick--Camping and Canoeing Skills. Maine Guide, Skowhegan, Maine. Gil Gilpatrick has spent his life in outdoor Maine. For 26 years he was an instructor of Outdoor Resources at the Skowhegan Regional Vocational Center. His other major occupation was guiding wilderness canoe trips in northern Maine. Gil considers his life, combining these careers, an ideal blend of his love of the outdoors and that of making hand crafted items. He has never made any of his gear commercially, rather preferring to make a few for friends and writing about them for others. He takes great pleasure in seeing people make and enjoy the items he has developed and perfected. Gilpatrick is a prolific writer and, besides writing free-lance articles when time permits, he is a regular columnist for Maine's Northwoods Sporting Journal, a monthly publication about outdoor Maine. He is the author of six outdoor-related books, five of which are still in print. Gil has been a Master Maine Guide for over 40 years and currently serves on the Guides Advisory Board, the body responsible for testing and licensing of new guides and advising the Commissioner on guide-related matters. Visit Gil's website at www. gilgilpatrick.com.     Hide-Away Canoe Club: Michael Peake, Sean Peake & Peter Scott--Wilderness Tripping. The renowned "Peake Brothers" have undertaken amazing wilderness trips throughout northern Canada. The Peakes are perrenial favorites at the Maine Canoe Symposium for their spirited Friday evening slide shows as well as their entertaining and informative wilderness camping workshops. Michael is also the editor of Che-Mun, the Journal of Canadian Wilderness Canoeing. Check out the Che-Mun website at: www.ottertooth.com/che-mun. Becky Mason--Canoeist, Artist, film maker. Becky acquired her paddling skills and her fondness for canoes from her father, Bill Mason, the author and filmmaker of the Path of the Paddle series. She continues the family tradition of sharing her passion for canoeing through her canoeing courses, art and film making. In the year 2000, she produced an award winning video called Classic Solo Canoeing, profiling her course and her love of paddling. Becky has also travelled the country presenting her beautiful and captivating slide shows and she has contributed to many books on canoeing. Some writing projects include a forward for the book "Paddling the Boreal Forest, Rediscovering A.P. Low", a chapter for "The Canoe in Canadian Culture", writing and painting images for "Rendezvous with the Wild The Boreal Forest" and with her brother Paul she updated her father's books "Song of the Paddle" and "Path of the Paddle". Recently Becky has been profiled  in the new DVD "This is Canoeing" and in the Spring 2010 issue of Canoeroots Magazine and has just been inducted as a Patron of Paddle Canada. She is a fully accredited Paddle Canada flatwater Instructor and trainer. Becky Mason is also a professional visual artist and has participated in a wide array of exhibitions at galleries since 1988.  Becky lives in Chelsea Quebec with her husband Reid. www.redcanoes.ca/becky/canoe/tourpresent.html Reid McLachlan--Canoeist, Artist. Reid started canoeing early with his family where they explored Algonquin Park, Ontario and its surroundings. These early excursions whetted his appetite for future paddling adventures and instilled in him a love and respect for what he considers to be the perfect craft ever invented…the canoe. Since those first strokes Reid has paddled many miles on the rivers and lakes of Canada, has worked as a whitewater river guide and with his wife Becky Mason, they have travelled to many parts of North America to teach canoeing. Reid is a fully accredited Paddle Canada flatwater Instructor and trainer. But first and foremost Reid is a visual artist. An honours graduate of the Ontario College of Art he has had solo and group shows of his paintings in many Canadian public and private galleries. Reid is also a skilled photographer and records his trips with Becky, his wife, these images illustrate her storytelling slideshows. Reid spends his winters painting in his studio in the Gatineau Hills, sometimes taking time to ski and tend to his hockey rink on the river. The summer months are spent building and repairing canoes for a local outfitter as well as travelling to teach canoeing with Becky, and whenever possible, going on wilderness river canoe trips. And whatever Reid is up to you can be sure he is appreciating life and all that it encompasses with laughter, love and respect. www.redcanoes.ca/reid/index.html   Linda Koski Maine Guide, Allagash Canoe Trips, Greenville, Maine. Linda grew up enjoying camping all over North America from the forests of Newfoundland to the mountains of California. She was introduced to traditional Maine canoe tripping in 1982 on the West Branch of the Penobscot. Since 1984 she has led canoe trips in Northern Maine and Canada with her partner Warren Cochrane, and has managed the Cochrane family business: Allagash Canoe Trips. She canoe raced with Warren and others for years and won two first place medals in the 1989 Downriver Whitewater Open Canoe Nationals, as well as many first place finishes in Maine races. She has competed in many canoe poling events and helps organize the annual Maine Poling Clinic and Championships. Visit their web site at www.allagashcanoetrips.com. David Lewis--Northwoods Paddling Technique and Traditional Camping & Cooking Skills. Maine Guides, Buxton, Maine. David is a Registered Maine Guide since 1985, and also a Registered Architect. He grew up exploring the woods and waterways of Maine, primarily by canoe, and enjoyed an extended apprentiship with Maine Guides Garrett & Alexandra Conover, absorbing the canoe travel skills refined by generations of guides and travelers. David's longstanding interest has been in learning and teaching the highly evolved traditional wilderness travel skills of the area, including canoe handling, campcraft and cooking.    Lynne Lewis--Northwoods Paddling Technique and Traditional Camping & Cooking Skills. Lynne is a Certified Audiologist and an avid hiker. Her interest in the outdoors dates to childhood explorations in New Hampshire. Later hiking experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado furthered her interest and skills. In Maine she has become an enthusiastic canoe tripper, with a continuing interest in traditional wilderness canoe travel. Together, as working professionals, their trips constitute the BIG VACATION of the year, and they have developed strategies to increase the enjoyment of both the trip and the year-round planning. Since 1990, the Lewises have been exhibitors at the annual Commonground Country Fair in Maine, with displays and discussions featuring the wilderness travel skills of the Maine Guide. They are also members of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, and present their popular workshops at the annual Assemblies.  Jim & Lisa Lisius--North American Touring Technique (Sit and Switch) Paddling Style & Symposium Organizer. Jim and Lisa's lives center around water and people. Their careers center on education with Lisa as University Health Center Nurse and Jim as teacher and engineer. Both discovered canoes as children and they met during the canoe racing phase of their lives. They founded the Penobscot Fifty Mile canoe race, lead canoe trips, and teach canoeing and camping skills. Their claim to fame in the canoeing world is that they are the first to complete a continuous people-powered crossing of the United States by canoe. This 5100 plus mile journey changed their lives, their relationship, and their view of the world. They currently live on the banks of the Sandy River in Farmington Falls Maine. They have been Maine Canoe Symposium staff every June since 1995. July and August find them heading north to canoe the Atlantic coast of Labrador with their daughter, River Dawn. Rory Matchett--Whitewater Paddling Skills. New Brunswick Canoe Guide, Moncton, New Brunswick. Rory has been paddling, poling and "playing in canoes" for over 25 years. He is a Canadian Recreational Canoe Association Moving Water Instructor, a Canoe New Brunswick Poling Instructor, a Boy Scout Leader and Trainer, and Treasurer for Canoe New Brunswick.   Abbott Meader--Fly Fishing. Abbott, son of Albion, Maine parents, spent many decades in the studio art department of Colby College, and is now retired. He has been a fly fisherman for over 45 years - on the streams, rivers, and lakes of Maine - places that are found in many of his drawings and paintings. Nancy, his wife of fifty years, is a noted Maine potter. They have three children and five grand children.   Ben Meader--Rolling a Canoe. Ben is an avid canoe tripper and whitewater addict, He loves to help people learn that skill that many thought was only the domain of kayakers, rolling an open canoe! He has completed many trips down Maine's Dead River, a steady 16 miles whitewater run as well as numerous wilderness trips in Maine, New York, and Canada. This past summer Ben and seven friends paddled 460 miles on the Cochrane and Thlewiaza Rivers in northern Manitoba and Nunavut, Canada. Vist their trip website at: http://sites.google.com/site/thlewiaza/home. John Meader--Astronomy and Symposium Organizer. John is an avid paddler and canoe tripper. He has shot and produced an award winning video titled, "Babes in the Woods, Extended Canoe Camping with Small Children." He is a Registered Maine Guide and the owner and founder of Northern Stars Planetarium, a portable planetarium business that visits schools and libraries throughout Maine. John lives in Fairfield, Maine. Visit the Northern Stars Planetarium web site at: www.northern-stars.com Bonnie Pooley --Maine Guide. After doing summer work for Hurricane Island Outward Bound for 11 years, Bonnie has run a guide service called Maine Explorations for the last 13 years. Specializing in weeklong canoe trips, she and partner Mac Davis guide small groups on the Allagash, the West Branch, and the Rangeley lakes. A high school teacher for 38 years, she loves nothing better than introducing people to the art and skill of paddling a canoe. Megan Henderson-- Megan is a licensed forester working in the Maine and New Hampshire woods. She has a passion for the outdoors and enjoys recreational paddling as one of her pasttimes. She's been on a few canoe camping trips in northern Maine and Canada. Three times she's joined Polly Mahoney of Mahoosuc Guides on her guided canoe trips as a 'sherpa' helper. Megan met Bonny Pooley through Mahoosuc Guides, helping with husky care and dogsledding trips on Umbagog Lake.   Mike Shannon--Naturalist. Mike is a naturalist, educator, and a Registered Maine Guide.  Whether in the forest prowling for owls or aboard boats scanning for pelagic birds, he continues to lead outings for local groups.  He is recently retired from Unity College where he taught ornithology and ecological education.  A former director of the Audubon Ecology Camp in Maine (Hog Island), he has also served as Master Naturalist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society.  Mike has a long history of sharing his passion and enthusiasm for things natural.   Ray Reitze--Master Maine Guide, Instructor & Naturalist. Ray has been paddling and poling canoes for over forty years. Ray teaches the skills and philosophy of the Elders that have influenced his life since he was a boy. He speaks on wilderness survival at numerous organizations and schools. Ray and Nancy co-author a series of articles on primative skills entitled "Grandfather's Teachings." Ray runs "Heart Teachings of Old Turtle" with his wife Nancy. Visit their website at: www.oldturtle.org/. Harry Rock--Modern Poling. Harry Rock--Modern Poling. National Canoe Poling Champion, Westfield, Massachusetts. Harry is the author of "The Basic Essentialsof Canoe Poling" published by ICS Books and "Canoe Poling" published by Little Dancer Films in London, England. He also has an instructional video on poling which was filmed and produced by Little Dancer Films in London. He is a ten time National Canoe Poling Champion and seven time Masters National Canoe Poling Champion. In open class competition he was undefeated for ten years, amassing a record 81 straight victories including fifteen National Slalom titles, ten National Wildwater titles and ten Combined National titles. Harry has been a featured speaker and presenter three times for the English Canoe Symposium which is an international canoe symposium held in northern England. Harry is an active downriver open canoe racer. He has been a certified American Canoe Association white water canoe instructor, an avid white water C1 paddler, and a former professional river guide. When not on the water, Harry is an enthusiastic road bicyclist and Nordic ski racer. He is a Nordic and alpine National Ski Patroller. Professionally, Harry has been the Executive Director of the YMCA in Westfield, Massachusetts and currently works for Springfield College directing their YMCA Professional Studies Program for students aspiring for a YMCA career. He has been a member of the Maine Canoe Symposium pro staff since the symposium was begun in 1986. Kevin Silliker--Classic Style Poling. New Brunswick Canoe Guide, Sunny Corner, New Brunswick. Kevin has been "messing with canoes" for over 30 years. He is a Canadian Recreational Canoe Association Moving Water Instructor, a Canoe New Brunswick Poling Instructor, a Training Officer for New Brunswick Ground Search and Rescue, the Founder/Trainer of the Miramichi Search and Rescue River Team, Secretary of Canoe New Brunswick, and a Class I Guide.     Monica Schnitger--Camping Skills. Andover, Massachusetts. Monica has been wilderness paddling for years throughout Maine, the Northeastern United States, and Canada. Monica has been an organizer and volunteer at the Maine Canoe Symposium for the past six years. Kevin Slater--Whitewater Skills & Basic Paddling Skills. Maine Guide, Mahoosuc Guide Service, Newry, Maine. Kevin has been an active guide for 20 years. He has traveled extensively in the north by canoe and dog team with Natives. This has provided him with a deep respect and understanding for the people and their culture. Kevin has done numerous canoe expeditions in Maine, Quebec, Labrador, and a pioneer descent of the Grand Canyon. He is an excellent teacher and a certified instructor-trainer for the American Canoe Association. Kevin has been a Registered Maine Guide since 1976. He is a former Program Director for Outward Bound and taught at the University of Maine where he received a Masters of Education degree in 1984. Kevin is a true craftsman who takes great pride in what he produces from his workshop. In his rare moments of free time he enjoys listening to Celtic music and writes occasionally for Mushing magazine. Visit the Mahoosuc Guide Service web site at www.mahoosuc.com. Kirk Wipper--History of Canoeing & Wilderness Walk. Former president of the Canadian Recreational Canoe Association and the founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum which has the largest collection of historic canoes in the world. Kirk is an avid steward of the environment and an extraordinary teacher. He loves to share his knowledge, stories, wit and wisdom. Visit the Canadian Canoe Museum's website at: www.canoemuseum.ca   Reinhard Zollitsch--Sea Canoeist. Reinhard first taught at MCS in 2008. He is an accomplished long distance ocean paddler, including an almost 5,000 mile paddle around all New England states and Canadian maritime provinces. His most recent solo trips took him around Cape Breton Island and up the western shore of Newfoundland. His skill, enthusiasm and sense of adventure are sure to delight. Check him out on his extensive website of published articles at: www.ZollitschCanoeAdventures.com. Maine Canoe Symposium c/o Winona Camps 35 Winona Road Bridgton, ME 04009 Reservations: 207-647-3721 Information: 207-892-3121 Email: mcs@canoemaine.com