Quetico's Cache Bay Pictographs

On our August 2011 trip to Quetico, Cristin and I sought out and found the Cache Bay pictographs, located a bit off the beaten path in a dead-end bay on the west side of Cache Bay.  Please see the companion blog "Quetico" for more on our whirlwind Quetico trip.  See also a description of our epic snowshoe hike in January 2011 to the Hegman Lake Pictographs in the BWCA.

Quetico

Sunday, August 28, 2011: Straddling the international border
between Ontario (left) and Minnesota (right) on Lake Saganaga

Cristin and I made a whirlwind 3 day trip to Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario the last weekend of August. Quetico is the Canadian equivalent of the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota, a pristine canoe wilderness full of nothing but lakes and rivers, rocks and trees.  Both Quetico and the BWCA are about 1 million acres but Quetico has about 1/10th the number of visitors each year, making it a much more remote experience.

Cristin's goal was a trip to Quetico that included waterfalls, pictographs, lots of paddling, a great campsite, and complete solitude - all in 3 days and 2 nights!  The challenge was on.

Day 1 Paddle Route (dashed line)