"eric root" wrote in message
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I agree, but suggest that you should plan for more variety. I've seen the
last snow about then (it didn't stick, but my green fiberglass canoe
turned
white), and you should expect that the fly season will be in full swing by
the end of May. Bring at least a headnet, and a bug jacket is not a bad
idea. A parka will almost surely be welcome on at least one day.

Eric


I agree that more variety is possible, but there probably won't be highly
variable weather (you almost certainly won't have record lows and record
highs in the same week, or a 35-degree cold front followed by 80-degree
highs). It might be better to ask this question in mid-May, once this year's
weather pattern starts becoming evident. If he were doing a week long
Allagash trip every year for a decade and was always taking the same gear,
I'd suggest packing everything from a down parka to Bermuda shorts, but the
overall odds at this point are that it will be a normal year, with temps in
the low 70s and a few days of rain during the week.

That being said, personally I'd hope for a late season snowfall to kill the
damn blackflies. In a 'normal' year, late May is the start of the peak bug
season. Nothing worse than those noseeums that bite your eyelids just before
dawn.

--riverman