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Nov 23rd, 2009 at 7:21am
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Last trip, I noticed a cord running into the water from a rock at an unoccupied campsite. The other end held a mesh bag filled with origionally packaged cooler type food; cheese, packaged meat... All of the store packaging had been compromised and therefore also contained water.

The other thing odd this year was a framed double hung window with the glass in tact. Near it was a dozen or so empty motor oil bottles and an uninsulated ~8 gage wire between insulators on trees. I consider the window and wire to be artifacts. (Never did find the cabin darn it.)

All remain as found.

Anybody else find anything unexpectedly interesting last year?
  
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Reply #1 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 2:13pm
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db,

We found a Tilley floating in Chatterton one time ... a rod case washed up on a remote island on Pickerel (with a faded address label we were able to read and send to its rightful owner) ... various pieces of fishing tackle attached to stumps ... a canoe twisted and torqued and beaten half to death in Russell at the base of the falls (but no bodies).

But all that seems downright mundane compared to a framed double-hung window (and you did specify "unexpectedly interesting").

What would be fun is to speculate on your treasure trove's origins:

Was the wire part of an elaborate battery and telephone crank fishing outfit? (OK, maybe a radio antenna).

Was the window intended for a greenhouse to early-grow some illicits?

Did the oil bottles contain oil residue, or some sour mash?

Hmmm, I must ponder.

Anyone else?

-- kypaddler

by the way, your stash would seem more interesting if you said you found it in some remote area of the park reachable only by paddling, as opposed to, say, Basswood where it could have been hauled by motor. but then you didn't say.
  
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Reply #2 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 4:04pm
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We found a concrete block at a Cirrus campsite one time. We joked about someone sneaking it into his buddy's pack before the trip. I guess it was probably left by one of the fly-in or first nation power boaters.
  
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Reply #3 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 4:33pm
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We spotted a pile of decaying moderm building materials - plywood, sheet insulation - and thought someone must have intended to build a cabin some years before that.  That was on Jean Lake, 1989.  We never found out the real story behind it.
-Tom

PS: Perhaps more surprising was to find a real, occupied rental cabin in Batchewaung Lake! (2005)
  
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Reply #4 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 5:11pm
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Since you said "last year" I'll limit to that time frame.

Found hanging from a tree at a campsite on Paull Lake Woodland Caribou Provincial Park (Ontario)

Compass with lanyard and emergency whistle attached.  (I hope this was a spared ... several lakes and lots of portages from here to any exit.)

dd

Other interesting finds from previous trips:

Fanny pack with wallet, meds, camera (returned to owner)
Paddles: Started one trip with 3 paddles; ended with 5 (left spares with outfitter).
Weather balloon(s):  2, each on different years, both on McDougal.
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Reply #5 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 6:15pm
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DentonDoc wrote on Nov 23rd, 2009 at 5:11pm:
Since you said "last year" I'll limit to that time frame.


Tongue Oh, I thought it said last 20 years!  Once again I am reminded that it always helps to read the original post   Undecided
  
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Reply #6 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 7:03pm
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Also found a similar uninsulated steel (?) wire.  Most of it was on the ground, but in places was strung in trees with ceramic insulators.  Found this on the eastern shore of Yeh, and ran into likely the other end of it along the Yeh/Lonely portage.  telegraph wire perhaps?

The occasional logging-era artifact.  

A few years back, we found an old stashed canoe in one of the BWCA PMA areas.  We pointed it out to a ranger on our return - he asked why we didn't bring it out, then we showed him its location on the map - in the middle of a 3 mile PMA bushwack.

Amazing inner peace - but I guess that's not all that unusual, is it ?
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Re: Unusual finds
Reply #7 - Nov 23rd, 2009 at 10:56pm
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mk631...interesting about the supplies....about 10 yrs ago on Robinson....there was a Canadian research team....for some time...it sounded as if they might have even had permission to build  (my speculation)

EDITED..addendum...the more I consider this, the less sense it makes
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Re: Unusual finds
Reply #8 - Nov 24th, 2009 at 7:09am
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The wire (cable) was at the NW end of Little Jean so I wouldn't be more surprised if it ran all the way to Yeh as it was headed in that direction. It was just big fat wire, 10 feet off the ground at best. Aluminum perhaps, didn't notice any rust as I followed it around. The oil cans were floating (hidden) in a small pool under a huge rock maybe 2-3 rods from shore. The window was standing up, not leaning on anything and a lot nearer to shore as I recall. I wish I could have investigated further but it was time foe me to head for home so I didn't even take a camera with me.

A few days earlier, I found some plastic bins full of nets and floats near a boat at the mother of all campsites. That was interesting until I realized....

I had a borrowed tent and canoe saving me ~15 pounds to pull around and portage plus a good portion of my trip was new territory. That was unusual too. I may even go that way again to get to know some places better. It's all good.
  
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Reply #9 - Nov 24th, 2009 at 12:20pm
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db,

The window was standing up, not leaning on anything and a lot nearer to shore as I recall

Does that mean in the water?

Weird indeed.

- kypaddler

I'm still hoping to find an open-minded mermaid on a rock, but alas.
  
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