PADDLING CLOCKWISE AROUND THE ENTIRE SHORELINE OF THE LAKE
After lugging your gear over that nasty portage, you are greeted with a view to the east of Fay Lake from the Warclub Lake/Chub River portage landing. A beaver dam is out of sight, just to your right, where the Chub River flows out of the lake.
From the Warclub Lake/Chub River portage, you paddle southward to the south shoreline of Fay Lake. From there you follow the shoreline eastward until reaching the east end of the lake. Once arriving, you look about for portage shown on your map that leads to Flying Lake. You can see the landing for this portage from the water if you look carefully. It is exactly where it is shown on recent BWCA maps. The problem is that this portage leads no where. If you try to follow it, the portage trail dies out. From the location marked on the map as the starting point of the now-not-to-be-found 87 rod portage to Flying Lake, paddle a short distance north up the east end of the lake and into the Chub River. Follow the river until it becomes impassable and to your right you see the landing for the unmarked portage which leads to the Chub River.
View to the southeast across Fay Lake from the Glee Lake portage. Notice that the south shore of the lake has some standing pines that survived the Cavity Lake Fire of 2006.
Route Connections for Echo Lake
The only reasonable way in or out of Echo Lake is the portage to Brule Lake.
