...or has everyone living been eaten?

Heading up (for the first time) in two weeks...

I read rumors that one can see the Northern Lights from IR.

Any advice on that for a late July / early August trip? Never seen them before...

You guys are making it tough for me to settle on a route *laugh*.

As for fishing gear - I do fish but I was thinking of leaving the gear at home... or checking weights and if they are still under my peak weight, tossing in a small kids rod (Star Wars, definitely not the Barbie one) with better line ...

Thanks for the suggestion. Never played with the Esbit before but heard a lot of good things. The wifey loves to camp but is fairly new (and conservative) to backpacking. Her original pack list had a change of cloths for every day on the island. I think I've got that under control now but she really ...

Actually, with that Water Taxi... we could feasibly hit the Rock Harbor at 11 or 12... and then take the taxi right away over to Chippawa and stay there the night (if I understand you correctly). That gets us out of RH traffic almost immediately although we do miss whatever ranger programs are going ...

Whops. Wasn't paying attention to my own notes.

Day 3: ...from Lake Richie
* East Chickenbone (5.0 miles)
* McCargoe Cove (6.3 miles)
* Daisy Farm (5.8 miles but would do 2 day stay)

Day 4 ... hiking range would be 0 (staying at Daisy farm), 6.1 miles (from E.Chickenbone) or 8 miles (from ...

I'm using PMI Utility Cord (www.pmirope.com). List an approximate tensile strength of 400 lbs. 50' length of it too.

Weight comes in at 99 gram (which is about 0.22 lbs).

Read the island rules - sounds like they are OK but just wanted to verify that with other people.

I've got a DIY kit that's pretty efficient (barely even leave ash) but I wanted to make sure its OK to bring as our backup kit (we use a Dragonfly normally but with 5+ days on the island, I like a ...

First time to IR. Wife and I have done hiking before - we're still in the novice category but not in the newbies. We have a good (lightweight) collection of gear. My pack will likely be around 40 lbs, her's around 30 and the kids around 15 to 10. We did 15 miles last summer in the Smokey Mountains ...