Stairway Portage to Rose Lake
This trip to Hungry Jack has turned into a walk, or should I say paddle, down memory lane. The last time we experienced this area was 1983. The occasion was the first trip in the BWCAW for Alisa and Deanna. That trip actually started at Hungry Jack Lodge. We were first introduced to Jerry Parsons and his son Forrest; more on that later. We caught a ride in an old pickup to Gunflint Lake to begin our trip along the Canadian border back to Hungry Jack. This is not a trip narrative, however there are a few highlights that live in our family memory. There is bench mark on North South portage where the girls played run around the border a few times; mom and dad participated as well. We became wind bound on Daniels Lake only a few yards from the portage to Bearskin thanks to dad’s failure to read the map correctly. Then there is Deanna’s trauma on the portage to Bearskin in the rain when dad zipped her chin into a ra...