I had not seen this post prior to my june 2011 Q trip but i can say that i own one of the 40 or so names and 20 or so stories in the message cache on hoare lake. Me and my best man (for my wedding coming up in august) made the bushwack over from camel on june 16th this year. I will admit that he is not kidding when he says it's not easy. IT took the two of us, single portaging mind you, about 6 hours to make it in. The "raspberry portage" is about 3/4 of a mile. At one point a beaver has dammed the creek that you follow making it pretty rough goig around or through. The second little jump is about 150 yards long that isnt very bad. The final push into hoare from the little pond isn't a easry down hill walk. There has been some major wind damage to the area and it's more like a maze of up down and around and then a very steep downhill at the end.

I do agree that all the pain and bugs are worth it. Hoare lake is incredibly clear and cool. There are numerous trees that look like they have been keeping watch there for thousands of years. And the lake trout are Plentiful!!! Just in case anyone was wondering we did not catch any other species in hoare despite a full day of trying. The campsite hadn't seen a tired body in 5 years according to the infamous message cache and it showed in how grown over it was.

On a different note. We pushed hard later in the day to make hoare on the second day of our trip out of stanton bay and payed for it that night. In our haste to push hard and make our destination we dropped the compression sack that held our tent and sleeping bags. By starting as late as we did we were unable to find it in the dark that night and slept under a tarp stretched between two trees. Luckily the bugs were almost nonexsistent in the constant east wind. Ad it didn't rain that night! We rose early just to backtrack almost all the way back to camel before we found our lost equipment. Needless to say we enjoyed another full day on hoare fishing, eating and resting before we left our peaceful lake headed north again.

Regretfully i did not know of the "challenge" so i did not copy any of the names in the new and improved nalgalene bottle that must have replaced the metal container. there was a moose shed that was placed over top of the rockpile by one of the previous visitors. They had apparently found it in camel lake and carried it all the way in with them!

I will have some pictures in a couple weeks and if anyone wants to know more, or specific info about getting there or anything i would be happy to help.  ;)