This year, we took two days to get in, camping a night on the Kawishiwi River. We had a point site on the southeast end of the lake with a fair amount of traffice. But the site was huge, with a large grassy area, loads of room for tent sites, and a beautiful point where we could sit and read under a tree. It was cold in the mornings as the mist and the outfits show, but the days were pleasant, and the one thunderstorm that came through did not dump a lot of rain on us. This is one of the “5 star” campsites on the lake, with probably great swimming during the height of the summer. It is also the site featured in the article here in the blog called “The Legend,” where the late Mike Manlove and I wrote up a family for an illegal fire.
This was our third year base camping on Insula. We would explore campsites and volunteer to evaluate all 47 (more than even the Forest Service or the cartographers knew about) the following year.
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