Long-time friend, hiker and artist Phil Poirier will present his vision of the North Woods with a slide program of his paintings of the interior of the western mountains of Maine and New Hampshire at tomorrow night's Maine Outdoor Adventure Club (MOAC) meeting in Portland. Phil will also do a short primer on snowcave building and gearing up for winter travel.

If you haven't yet been to a MOAC meeting, well, you're missing out on a rousing good time. The monthly event draws 150 or more outdoorsy people from all over; a broad spectrum of trips are planned and a whole lot of socializing goes on. And no MOAC meeting is ever complete without a trek to the Great Lost Bear afterward for the "meeting after the meeting."