Day Two – In the morning we had a quick breakfast of oatmeal and hot cocoa. Then we headed over to the northwest side of the lake to check out the Indian pictographs. These pictographs look like sort of abstract thunderbird symbols. After that we began looking for the 30 rod portage into Noon Lake. There is good northern pike fishing in Noon Lake. We followed the northern shore to another short portage into Summer Lake. At the end of Summer Lake there is a 16 rod up and over trail into Sultry Lake. The maps show a 40 rod portage into Silence Lake but the pond was all dried up to it was much longer. I had Lynn pace it off and she counted 70 rods. Lynn has always been pretty good on pacing/counting steps for a portage, so I’m sure it was accurate.

As soon as we hit Silence Lake I knew why this was one of Dave Sempert’s (pack room manager) favorite lakes. It is about 2 ½ miles long and mostly narrow. Big cliffs line the shore and the water is gorgeous.

Dave told us about a nice campsite on the north side. It was a beautiful day as we paddled up the lake. We found the northern site was occupied. We talked to the 2 guys who were staying there and found out that they intended on staying 2-3 days there. Lynn & I paddled back southward and grabbed a site on an eastern point. It was kind of open but had a great view of the whole lake.

I thought about taking the site directly across from it since it was more protected but we would miss seeing the sunsets.

After setting up camp we fished with bobbers off our campsite and caught a few smallies & pike. All were released and we had our steaks for dinner that night. Lynn’s ice in her Nalgene had finally melted but was still cool and nice for a lemonade/tequila cocktail. We sat and watched a magnificent sunset and then went off to bed.