Funny story regarding a bushwack attempt about 10 years ago on Quetico.  Many of you will recognize the attached photo as the back side of Eden Island.  As a narrative, there were 4 of us that year - 2 canoes.  One morning as we were getting ready to fish, one of the guys in the other canoe thought a bushwack to the lake in the bottom right of the picture would be cool.  Me and Matt weren't interested so we stayed on Quetico.  Anyway, they paddled to shore, we said our goodbye's and good luck and they disappeared into the woods.

Me and Matt (Pascanell) continued fishing around the shore (white line) and we arrived in the small bay about 2 hours after we parted ways with our other canoe.  As we rounded the point we saw the other half of our group heading down the shore.  We pulled out the map and realized that they had actually portaged across the isthmus (red line) and NOT into the unnamed lake to the south (blue line).  As we paddled up to them they were shocked to see that we too had decided to follow them and bushwack into the unnamed lake.  (Are you getting this).  Anyway, we decided to not tell them where they actually were and continued to fish for a while together when they decided that they were going to head back to "Quetico".  We told them we would start heading back later.  Once they were in the woods out of sight, we paddled back around the peninsula post haste and met them as they were coming out of the woods.  It was then we revealed their actual route and directional mistake.  Pretty funny.

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