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Post by PG on Oct 18, 2004 6:33:41 GMT -5
Considering Kelly Lake - above Baker. Beautiful Lake, long and narrow with high ridges on either side. Six mile paddle with (If I remember right) just a couple of short portages in.
PG
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Post by nibi mocs on Oct 18, 2004 16:03:39 GMT -5
I was on Kelly last November, just before ice-in. It is indeed beautiful , narrow and easy to get to. No evidence of rice when I was there but... it WAS November and ice was forming. Paddling on Kelly Lake November 1, 2003
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Post by PG on Oct 18, 2004 18:21:11 GMT -5
Rice Beds on north end. Ice would probably make them a little hard to see.
Old stomping grounds. Bakers (Baker Lake) are Ojibwe relations - for a photo of Grandma and Frank Baker - stop at Sattelite Cafe on Highway 61 near Lake/Cook Co. Line. At 105 Grandma Baker was the oldest woman in the state when she died. She was one of the premier snowshoe makers in the area and made 47 pairs of snowshoes for the US Forest Service the year she was 97. She died in 1942 - which puts her birth at about 1837. Peterson Lake was named for an uncle of my maternal grandmother.
PG
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Post by bogwalker on Oct 19, 2004 8:21:36 GMT -5
Pierre, That information makes paddling Baker even more special for me now.
Thanks for sharing. I will be sure to stop to see the picture next time I am up that way.
I have to admit last Novemeber when Nibi, Troutbreath and I were paddling Baker, Kelly and Peterson we weren't looking much for rice. We did see and experience a rock or two and a nosy fox in our campsite at night.
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