Back in my college days, in the BWCA, I found a Maytag cast aluminum washing machine lid. Back in those days, they were coveted for use as camp fire griddles. They worked great for frying fish fillets, burgers and pancakes. Slid into a sack to keep soot off other gear they formed a nice big flat surface on the inside back a Duluth pack, to rest smoothly against the portager’s back.
On a Thomas or Fraser Lake island, found a beaver trappers, 55 gallon band top barrel, with a wall tent, stove, axe, saw and a couple dozen #4 jump traps in it. Would never have found it but a bear had been engaged in trying to get into it, had rolled it out from its hiding place under a ledge rock outcropping into an open area. We rolled it back to where it had obviously came from. Back then beaver trapping in the spring was a a big part of some local people’s annual income. If you are wondering how someone managed to get a 55 gallon barrel that far back into the Boundary Waters? It was easy then, as snow machine travel was legal on the then common motorized routes.
I also found a large two blade Case Trappers folding knife stuck in a log near a beaver dam. I have gotten a lot of use out of that old knife.
On Vera Lake, on the route to Knife Lake, I found a lacey black 34/C bra hanging from a make shift clothes line near a camp site. Spent years looking for the owner.
