Thursday, July 30, 2015 Day 2 was my chance to get out for a day trip. Decided I wanted to visit Devil’s Cascade on the Lower Paunees Lake. On the portage over to Loon Lake you climb a hill. Fairly smooth for BWCA standards but it was steep climb. Get to the top there was a nice camp site with a view of the steam/river below. I stopped for lunch and a couple pictures. Thought this would be a fun place for night’s camp, but would be hard to plan on. If it was late in the day and you were planning on it, but it’s occupied then you have bit of a portage and paddle to find the next campsite. When I got back to my canoe, the wind started picking up. I decided I better head back to my camp site. Glad I did, a couple thunderstorms rolled through. I didn’t set up a rain fly, so I headed into my tent. Realized the one thing I forgot was a book to read. I purposely left all electronics in the car except my GPS. That was just for a back up. But reading would have been nice during the down times. That night the sunset was beautiful. The loons serenaded me and late in the evening I heard my first wolf howl. It was so loud I thought they were in my camp site. I jumped up asking myself where I dumped my grey water. Realized I disposed of it deep into the woods, that was good. My guess the wolf was right across the water. 

~Lower Pauness Lake

  ~Lower Pauness Lake, Loon Lake  

Lakes Traveled:   Lower Pauness Lake, Loon Lake,