The land around the camp is boreal forest--typical Canadian bush. The trees are worthless for timber, so there are none of the roads or development that logging brings. It's home to black bears, eagles, moose, wolves, and above all else mosquitoes and black flies. The bugs weren't much of a problem along the windy shoreline of camp, but walk a few yards into the bush and you're swarmed. The area had been experiencing a hot, dry spring and summer, and lighting storms had ignited large forest fires. Government planes from Thompson checked on this fire on the West end of the lake daily.