It was taken first part of July.  There was about 5 or 6 of them together.  They came in as if they were expecting to find crumbs or scraps on the groud around the fire ring, then they moved on.

I like the photo of the evening grosbeck today; unusually friendly.  Seems like they are usually more reclusive.  What time of year was the picture taken?

starwatcher

squigman wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2010 at 1:55pm:

Yeah.  That's what I would have guessed ... two pretty long days (depending on where you started on Glenn).

Last couple of pic's of your campsite on Mex. Hat.  That would be the campsite on the western shore in the northern part of the lake ... not too far from the portage torward Glenn ... with a sandy landing on the left side?  If that's it, someone has cleaned it up a bit from last year.  It had a lot of deadfall spread around it.

dd

They're telling him 3-4 months.  Not sure about rehab. It took us 2 days to get out from Glenn.  We were travelling pretty heavy up until then.  We tend to bring a lot of gear, and we do two trips on every portage.  Our food pack was still pretty heavy at that point, since the fishing was so good we had been eating a lot of fish meals.  We had a nice campfire that night, burning all un-needed food items etc.  I still had to do 3-4 trips on each portage to get our gear out,  but we made it.

glad it was only his Fibula
injury in the woods always gives me some pucker

squigman wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 5:29pm:

Yep.  He did it up right!  What's his estimated recovery time?  Any rehab?

The trek from Glenn to the Onnie EP parking lot is not exactly the easiest stretch of country I've traveled, but I guess the absolute worst is toward the end. At least you were covering ground you'd seen before.   How long did it take you to get out?

dd

He tripped backwards over a rock, while collecting firewood behind our campsite on Glenn.  Just getting in and out of the canoe were a real challenge.  He made a cane out of a piece of beaver wood, and we wrapped his ankle up good, and he hobbled his way across the remaining 12 portages to get to the truck.  He's had surgery to repair his ankle since returning.

squigman wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 12:10pm:

Sorry to hear about your brother's misfortune.  I can't imagine how you'd handle the 625 meter portage on a broken ankle and the portage out to the parking lot is not exactly a snap even WITH the boardwalk.

I hope your brother is doing well and on the road to recovery!  I'm assuming your brother broke his ankle on the way BACK to Glenn?

When I was fishing the outflow of Mexican Hat Falls, I had a chance to chat with the occupants of that campsite, who were relaxing, mid-morning, on the front "veranda" in their camp chairs.  They related that they had found them stashed back in the woods.  I assume they left them there when they departed.  They also put us on to a walleye hot spot further down the lake.  WOW!  Hot spot indeed!!! We fished that spot for perhaps 2 hours and I rarely had a period of over 2 minutes where I didn't have one on.  We finally moved off when we saw the party paddling down the lake toward us ... obviously looking for a bit of walleye fishing themselves.

dd

Thanks dd.   I believe the portage would be back in that direction.  My brother caught this walleye fishing around an island shortly after completing the 625m portage. We used the Onnie entry, paddled in to Mexican Hat, and back out through Onnie.  My brother broke his ankle collecting firewood on Glenn Lake, so the trip out was interesting to say the least.   Didn't see any camp chairs when we stopped at the Mexi Hat site, but we did catch a number of nice walleye there.  We found awesome walleye fishing below every one of the nice falls along that route.

Rojo-

Nice Walleye!

Is the exit portage over your left shoulder?

Nice Mex Hat photo yesterday.  That round rock face beyond (left of) the falls is the where the portage begins/ends.  A load of fun when its wet.  Did you take a few walleye fishing the outflow of the falls.  Caught a couple there, but they were on the small side.  Did you find any camp chairs at that campsite?

dd