BWCAW 2005–LAKE INSULA

Mike — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:59:14 +0000

This was our second base camp trip to Insula. We stayed on a site just north of what we call the cut-through, a narrow isthmus between two major sections of the lake. It saves a lot of time paddling through the lake. We wanted to go further, but the map was misleading about the site we wanted to stay at. We could have gone further, but the site we stayed on was open, it looked pretty reasonable and we moved in, staying five nights.

We took a daytrip up to Alice Lake and then to Fishdance to see the pictographs there.

On the way out, on Lake Two, I awoke at 0130 and went outside. It seemed awfully bright for a night when the Moon had set. Sure enough, we had an aurora! I awoke Jan and asked her if she had ever seen one before. She hadn’t. Imagine. We had been married nearly 35 years and I didn’t know that. I’ve seen more striking aurorae, but this one was pretty nice, and besides, I made sure my wife saw it!

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BWCAW 2005–LAKE INSULA