Ancient_Angler wrote on May 1^st, 2009 at 5:42pm:

You'll have to up the ante. I've already been to McKenzie. See "Mysterious McKenzie" Boundary Waters Journal[i] a couple of years ago. Tim

Tim,

True, but you didn't go about it anywhere near the same way that MagicPaddler & Kingfisher did (see the most recent BWJ issue with THEIR story)... NOT that any sane person would go that way!

[By the way, I'm uniquely entitled to say it was a CRAZY notion because it was MY idea in the first place.  However, I retained enough wits about me to avoid actually trying to execute on that simple-minded idea.]

Tim, we started on a trip to McKenzie via customary routing a couple years back.  I had a copy of your BWJ story in my hand (again) when we started off.  We ran into some misfortunes, however, & never made it.  Seems to me I had a copy of another of your stories in my possession when I set off for Stumpy's first Bushwhacker's Jamboree, too.  It was the one you wrote about the bass on McDougall Lake... one of the main reasons I ended up going THERE versus to Stumpy's Chub Pond.

Anyway, "bushwhacking" in ONE DAY from the east into McKenzie Park ain't for the faint of heart.

Jimbo   8-)