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Algae blooms in Richie and Chickenbone

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 10:08 am
by backwoods doc
The park service is now reporting algae blooms in both Lake Richie and Chickenbone Lake.

https://www.nps.gov/isro/planyourvisit/ ... royale.htm

Re: Algae blooms in Richie and Chickenbone

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:31 am
by hooky
Bummer. We were hoping that we'd get lucky and get a night in at WCB in a couple of weeks. That's a site that we haven't visited yet.

Re: Algae blooms in Richie and Chickenbone

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:44 am
by Bobcat1
Depending on how you route yourself, there may be ok water at Lake Lesage or Lake Livermore, or McCargoe Cove, within 2 miles of WCB campsite. Maybe you can work with that and manage your fill-ups to have essentially a dry camp at WCB?

Re: Algae blooms in Richie and Chickenbone

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 10:30 am
by hooky
Bobcat1 wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:44 am Depending on how you route yourself, there may be ok water at Lake Lesage or Lake Livermore, or McCargoe Cove, within 2 miles of WCB campsite. Maybe you can work with that and manage your fill-ups to have essentially a dry camp at WCB?
I'll take a look at options. We'd either be coming from Lane or Moskey.