I've been fishing with Adrien before. He bought me a fishing license and took us out to his favourite fiddle head--picking spot and we combined that with an hour's fishing where a fellow had taken out a 20" brown trout a day or two before. I hadn't touched a fishing pole in 40 years. While showing me the proper way to cast he got his hook stuck in a tree across the river, gave a mighty yank on the line and reeled in a piece of bark which I kept, wrote best wishes to my how to catch fish teacher and presented it to him at Cafe Namasthe during a set I was doing. He took it in stride as a good friend would.

Ad, watch your back: kids at 13 can do camp chores. I know you'll have a great time. The kids are learning vital skills and they will cherish the memories from this and previous trips.