dary we went, over a chain of lakes, 
and camped at night in a trapper’s 
eabin. The following night, we 
stopped at another cabin and used it 
as a kitchen, setting up the tents out- 
side. From then on, the trail led 
straight through the heart of the big 
forest. The lakes with their islands 
and their peaked spruce forests, their 
rocky shores and irregular outlines, 
were no less attractive than they had 
been in summer. The skies were clear 
as only Minnesota skies in winter can 
be, and in the early mornings the 
peaked spruce trees cast long sharp 
shadows over the snows; the frozen 
mist sparkled on every needle of the 
pines; the soft crunch of the snow- 
shoes and the distant cry of the trail- 
ing dog teams made a stage of the 
Superior. Forest to appeal to the 
esthetic and adventurous at the same 
time. Across the lakes, over portages, 
through long channels’ connecting 
larger bodies of water, along the bed 
of small streams, over beaver dams 
and through spruce swamps as well 
as over rocky prominences, always 
flanked by virgin coniferous  for- 
ests and exclaiming at the vistas that 
were opened up in various directions 
down the avenues of snow, the party, 
day after day, moved through the 
forest. 
it took just eight days to get to Grand 
Marais, a little town on the north 
shore of Lake Superior nearly two 
hundred miles from a railroad but con- 
nected to civilization by a long beauti- 
ful road leading along the shore of 
the big lake to Duluth, the metropolis 
of northern Minnesota. 
The trip was declared a success by 
everybody who took it. The Superior 
Forest had gained a national reputa- 
tion as a great summer playground 
particularly as a distinctive canoe 
country. The administration of the 
forest by the U. S. forest service is 
by the canoe, and each year the wil- 
derness plays host to thousands of 
people from all parts of the globe. But 
it was generally regarded as a sort 
of blank so far as,winter was °con- 
cerned. Then it began to be rumored 
that perhaps winter hikes and winter 
vacations had some advantages over 
those of balmy June. 
The trip proved conclusively that 
such was the case. The sun was 
warm, the scenery was beautiful, the 
walking was uniformly good, there 
were no mosquitoes or other insects. 
Very few of the men had ever been 
on snowshoes before; all except the 
dog mushers were office men, not ac- 
customed to such work. Still, the 
party on two occasions made more 
than twenty miles a day, with packs 
weighing up to thirty pounds.  Al- 
though I had used snowshoes for 
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