4IO Reminiscences of 



from Andover, twelve miles to the arm of the lake, 

 although we had two stout teams, but had to shovel 

 and tramp through heavy drifts of snow, and were 

 compelled to camp over night on the road. Several 

 other times I have been compelled to camp at the 

 arm of the lake by having the ice break up after it had 

 frozen, and in one instance I had to wait a week at the 

 arm for the ice to form sufficiently strong to get over. 

 In fact I have had quite a number of adventures 

 in getting up to camp on the Upper Richardson Lake 

 over the ice in the winter, and especially since the 

 comparatively late law on deer shooting, which ends 

 the season on December 15. 



To get the December shooting about the lakes is diffi- 

 cult, as one must get up the lake by boats, or on the ice. 



From the middle of November the ice generally 

 makes about the shores, making it difficult to get boats 

 in or out, and very seldom does the ice hold after its 

 first freezing over, although it may get an inch or two 

 thick, and sometimes it breaks up when it is three 

 inches thick from the sea made by a high wind on open 

 places. The open places will grow larger, and some- 

 times will break up the entire lake surface; at other 

 times it will open in three or iouv or more parts, while 

 the parts left closed will accumulate ice to the thickness 

 of seven or eight inches, and at such times one must 

 haul a boat over the frozen portions and row through 

 the open ones. 



The lake generally freezes up from the loth to the 

 15th of December, wholly, or sufficiently so to pass 

 teams over. Parts of the lake in the vicinity of springs 

 or currents will continue weak at all times in the 

 winter, and it is not very uncommon to break in with 



