The problem with this game year after year is I have to keep double checking so I don't repeat one from the past!



I'll give a big clue that this lake has a cardinal direction in its name. That should narrow it down to about 32 lakes or so, but which one is it?

South Cone Lake

I’ll go with North Cone Lake. And Yeti definitely gets an assist if that’s correct.

North Hegman

South Temperance Lake

East Bearskin

...once more into the breach dear friends... West Pike Lake...

South arm knife

North temperance

SunrisePaddler: "I’ll go with North Cone Lake. And Yeti definitely gets an assist if that’s correct."

:) Looks like I led you astray, Sunrise!

YetiJedi: "

SunrisePaddler: "I’ll go with North Cone Lake. And Yeti definitely gets an assist if that’s correct."

:) Looks like I led you astray, Sunrise!"

Haha, I’m riding your coattails to glorious victory! I can feel it.

South Wilder

South farm lake

East pike

North Wilder

Mike

No one yet. Maybe this clue will give it away, but props to the person that figures it out. This lake has four creeks attached to it: two coming in, two going out.

East Pipe Lake

South Hope Lake

Mike

West pike lake

West fern

North Lake

Well, we're past the halfway point of candidates from the initial clue and still not there yet. Hmm... Three of those four creek connect to lakes with campsites.

East Otto

YetiJedi: "East Otto"

There you go. Well done on a bit of a tough lake. It does have a portage into it, but it's not often shown on maps. I stayed on the eastern site on West Otto with a guide group. That site sure feels like a truly wilderness site. I'm not even sure there's an actual tent pad, but we made it work. I actually love that site since it feels so wild. Anyways, I paddled over and found the portage into East Otto. Then I scrambled up the big rock on West Otto with the pretty overlook on top. To round it out, I followed the valley back to South Otto. That valley has magnificent giant birches in it. All three Ottos are pretty neat. You're next.

Where are these Otto lakes?

North of Winchell I think.

North of Winchell. Access to West Otto is via a tough little portage up from Henson (the lake from the previous round of name that lake.) West Otto has two campsites and is a short hike away from its "siblings" East Otto and South Otto.

TreeBear: "

YetiJedi: "East Otto"

There you go. Well done on a bit of a tough lake. It does have a portage into it, but it's not often shown on maps. I stayed on the eastern site on West Otto with a guide group. That site sure feels like a truly wilderness site. I'm not even sure there's an actual tent pad, but we made it work. I actually love that site since it feels so wild. Anyways, I paddled over and found the portage into East Otto. Then I scrambled up the big rock on West Otto with the pretty overlook on top. To round it out, I followed the valley back to South Otto. That valley has magnificent giant birches in it. All three Ottos are pretty neat. You're next. "

Ha! I was going to guess East Otto after the first clue but overthought it - I thought, "He won't pick a lake that close to the one I just did" and "he isn't going to choose one without a campsite, nobody does that". Too funny!

Great place. Feels very remote in that area with overgrown portages and campsites that don't get very much use at all. Lots of moose and wolf sign and the Otto Lakes are often forgotten in that area, I think. Glad you picked that lake!

I'll get something posted later this evening.