Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-08-04
MiIwaukeean Explores
HAITIAN Lake Region
WILD BEAUTY OF UNEMPLOYED
REGION cAPTiVATES
THE OUTER

You don't need to go into the wilds
of South America or Canada to find
nameless lakes and streams Or wild
stretches without sign of human habi-
tation.
Right I'D in the northern lakes coun-
try of Wisconsin you can find wild
country to roam through to your
hearts content. Thirty years ago
this country was logged, but today a
second growth has created a new
wilderness. Out in these wilds, far
off the beaten path, are lakes that
are hardly visited the year around.
Pick your jumping off place-there.
are a dozen of them up in the lake
country Eagle River, Three Lakes,
Conover, State Line, Vinegar, Boul-
der Junction, Lac du FIambeau, Toma-
hawk lake. Then locate on a good
lake nearby There are fine resorts
out from most any of these places
where you can make your headquar-
ters and be sure Of real food and a
real place to sleep when you come in
from your wilderness jaunts. And
there you'll be able to engage guides
to take you exploring.
You won't be able to get to these
unnamed lakes in your car It's the
pack and trail for you Off through
the brush and the woods your guide
will take you, sometimes up old log
cling roads, sometimes through marrow
woods trails, often right through the
brush, but when you get there you'll
find it worth the tramp.
We made our headquarters at Ka-
than inn on Kathan lake, in the north
west corner Of Oneida county, east of
Eagle River. Kathan itself seems as
if it were miles from civilization, for
it's shores are clothed in virgin forest
that grows right down to the water.
Twelve miles Of wilderness shoreline
shuts this lake off from the rest of
the world.
Less than mile from Kathan
through a little woods trail we found
one of these hidden gems, Starvation
lake. Outside of our party there was
not another person on the lake and
there was no sign of human habi-
tation except a deserted old logging
shack There is something so in
wardly satisfying in the Ionesomeness
of these hidden lakes where the only
sounds heard are the wierd call of
the loon, the hoarse croak Of the bull
frogs and the swish of the wind
through the pines that stand high on
the shores.
We pushed out on the lake just as
gorgeous sunset tinted the clouds at
the opposite shore The water of this
spring fed lake was so clear that it
seemed as if we could almost see to
the bottom anywhere. Starvation
lake is a bass lake, but it was almost
too calm and still that late afternoon
to hope to fool the wary bass How
ever by Keeling out frogs far behind
us We 1IdlcSCu " SCC oOFC4 "a otA n Cc'
and got fights and game bass enough
to satisfy as for one evening.
North of Kathan we pushed next
day, six miles through the swamp and
brush to another lake, a lake without
a name There was not even a boat
here, but with our axes and a few
spikeswe made a crude raft and push
ed off from shore far enough to cast.
Virgin fishing! It seemed almost as
if the fish had been waiting there for
years for our coming and they snapp.
ed at everything we gave them, We
camped on shore at noon and fried
a mess of fish that tasted better than
anything we had ever had before,
then caught our fill again in the after
noon and hit the homeward trail,
There are scores of other hidden
lakes out from Found lake, Lost lake,
Pickerel lake CIR Butternut lake and
all through the northern lake coun-
try. There are trips you can take
that are almost explorations for there
are lakes so hidden in swamps and
wilds that it is almost impossible, to
get to them.-K. E. o. in Milwaukee
Journal.