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.   William Bentley is a retired high school physics and outdoor education teacher. In the middle of his teaching career, for eight years, Bill sailed as a deck officer in the Merchant Marine to see the world and ultimately to afford to come ashore and teach again. In his retirement, Bill is a Registered Master Maine Guide, a per diem Paramedic with Camden First Aid Association, crew chief of CFAA's Technical Rescue Team, and a member and founding board member of the Friends of Baxter State Park. He finds teaching CEU's, PALS, and ACLS for local EMS fun and important. Barbara and Bill manage a home on Mansfield Pond in Hope, Maine with 60 acres of their land protected with the Georges River Land Trust. Barb and Bill have sons in San Francisco, CA, Glenwood Springs, CO, and Logan UT. Frequent trips west are quite necessary and fun! Bill still finds himself rock and ice climbing, fly-fishing, canoeing, and creating mountain images with a big old Nikon D-700. Caleb Davis--Paddle Maker and Northwoods Paddler. Caleb Davis is a skilled instructor and continues to enhance his skills with course work and certifications. Past and current certifications include: 1977 Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association Instructor, 1977 Eastern Professional Ski Touring (xc) Instructor, 1991 United States Rowing Association Coach , 1997 League of New Hampshire Craftsman - Canoe Paddles, 1998 American Canoeing Association Flat Water Tandem Instructor, 1998 American Canoeing Association Flat Water Solo Instructor, 2000 Traditional Flatwater Canoeing Association, Executive Director and Instructor. In 2002, Caleb completed two full length videos. The first "Welcome to traditional flatwater canoeing" covers the basics through advanced for both tandem and solo. The second, "Welcome to making your own traditionally shaped canoe and Greenland Style Kayak paddle" is about paddle making. Visit Caleb's web site at: www.wcha.org/builders/tremolo 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. Gil was the winner of the 2010 Legendary Maine Guide Award. Visit Gil's website at www. gilgilpatrick.com.  Benson Gray--Canoe Sailing. Benson has a passion for canoe sailing and canoe history. He will share his love for these topics and help all those whom take his instruction develop sailing skills and an appreciation for the craft.  Mark Hamlin -- Expedition educator and all around "Stand Up" guy offering SUP workshops and Arctic Expedition Presentations. Mark has made a career of expeditioning and education having spent nearly 20 years leading multi-week courses for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the beaches of Baja California. In his spare time, he‚Äôs led several personal canoe expeditions in the Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut while donating countless liters of O+ blood to the needy mosquitoes of the north. An ACA certified whitewater canoe, sea kayak, swiftwater rescue and Stand Up Paddleboard instructor, Mark now spends 9 months of the year as the northern program manager for the Girl Scouts of Maine with the remainder of the year reserved for guiding trips on wilderness waterways of the North. 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. Terry Moulton - Children's Program. Maine State Camp Trip Leader:  First licensed as a Camp Trip Leader in 1985, Terry is also an ACA certified Canoeing instructor, a Junior Maine Guide State Staff Member, a Maine State Camp Trip Leader Safety Instructor involved in the licensing of new Camp Trip Leaders, a NADA Certified Level II Intermediate Archery Instructor, and certified in Wilderness First Aid and CPR.  Terry has had fifteen years experience as a Canoe Camp Dean in organized camping.He is a veteran having served twenty-seven years with the United States Air Force. He is a graduate of Salem State College, Salem, MA with a degree in Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Studies, Terry served five years at Camp Mechuwana as the Wilderness Director coordinating and leading wilderness canoe trips.By teaching canoeing, family canoe camping, and camp trip leadership skills, Terry hopes to lessen the effects of Nature Deficit Disorder and raise the Joy level of others and himself during his remaining years and have Fun doing it. 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.   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.   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: 207-778-0853 Email: info@mainecanoesymposium.org