Given recent discussions regarding helpfulness of outfitters, here is an excerpt from a 1961 trip report I found on-line.

Enjoy!
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Wednesday May 17

The bright frosty morning contained an evil sign – Dick was sick. … he couldn’t touch a thing (eat) and complained of a bad headache.

I was returning for the last pack when my foot skidded on a root. Turning sideways as I fell I landed on a jack pine stub a foot high beside the portage path…a diagnosis indicated a broken rib and I was incapacitated.

At Gunflint Lodge we were rescued again, for the second time in two days by a woman. This time it was Mrs. Justine Kerfoot, operator of that resort. She fed Dick some pills and put him to sleep on a couch in the lobby – two treatments which brought Dick great relief. She arranged with the mail man to haul me into Grand Marais for treatment and provided the car to take me to meet him at the main road. In the late afternoon she hauled Dick and Will and our outfit to town.

All these things she did just for our thanks. A real “Lady of the Lakes and Forest” with the old fashioned spirit of a helping hand.
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Find out who the first woman to rescue them was and the rest of the trip report here:
Canoe Voyages on the Fur Trade Route

Blue Skies!
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