Ed and I left the next morning for about a six hour ride up to Esker, to his second camp. This trip was through some fantastic scenic areas. We followed the White Wolf Snowmobile Club trail to Esker, which roughly parallels a railroad track all the way up. After we got the fire going, we went out on Menihek Lake for a short ride and we came back in off the ice a couple miles up from his camp. We came across a family of Innu Indians who had come up on the train from Sept-Isles, Quebec. They were camped in a large tent out in the woods and were hunting caribou and wolf. This group consisted of three brothers, Jean-Guy, Mike and Steve as well as their mother and Jean-Guy's little son who we called 'petit' Jean-Guy. The boys were very happy to see us as they were pretty much living in this tent all on their own for a month or so out in the woods. They had Ed and I into the tent for a hot cup of tea. The tent was stiflingly hot from the wood stove they had set up inside. It was amazing how warm it was, since the outside temperature was well below zero. Next morning, the boys asked us to go hunting with them, so Ed and I took off with them for a ride way up Menihek Lake to the McPhayden River area. We saw many Caribou on the ride. Ed got a couple and I think the Indians got about 5 of them. The Innu boys also got a couple of wolves as well. Apparently, after they had gotten a couple a caribou and as they were out on the ice dressing them, a pack of wolves came out on to the lake looking for a meal. We got as far as 54 degrees north latitude on this trip.
