Journeying Benedict Arnold’s trail down the Kennebec River

With a 1,100-member expedition, Benedict ventured into the forbidding upper reaches of Maine’s Kennebec River in 1775. They faced, bad weather, no food, illness, deaths and countless other hardships in their attempt to sneak up on their enemy – English troops.

Glen Adams and his son followed this 170-mile river route over a span of 4 years. Of course, they didn’t rough it like the revolutionary soldiers had a couple centuries prior. Unlike Arnolds, faulty maps, Adams had a GPS. (Except in one section where Glen forgot his map and GPS.) Maybe in that circumstance he felt more like the early army. What the Adams crew didn’t have to resort to was eating dog and shoe leather, instead sandwiches, tortilla chips and bottled water was their staples.