The Funny Bone Traditional Cache
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Located on the shores of Elbow lake, is the funny bone of course!
To get to this cache, park in the small parking area off Rt 11 by
the snowmobile bridge. And from there it's a short walk down the
road.
The Pemadumcook chain of lakes forms the largest body of water in
view as one gazes south from Mount Katahdin. If one takes a
landscape picture from that summit, these lakes span the distance
from the Piscataquis Mountains in the west to North Twin dam on
Elbow Lake in the east. It is the fifth-largest lake system in
Maine, exceeded only by Moosehead Lake at 74,890 acres, Sebago Lake
at 28,771 acres, Chesuncook Lake at 23,070 acres, and Flagstaff
Lake at 20,300 acres. The Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes occupy 18,300
acres.Individually Mooselookmeguntic Lake is larger than
Pemadumcook, but it is not larger than the chain.
The series of lakes are named Ambajejus, Elbow, North Twin,
Pemadumcook and South Twin Lake. The lakes are part of the West
Branch of the Penobscot River. The West Branch enters the northwest
corner of Ambajejus, and the current flows south through that lake.
The channel passes Deep Cove on the east and Porus Isands to the
west. The river channel then passes east through the east end of
Pemadumcook into the head of North Twin Lake at Indian Point. The
channel then follows a southeasterly course across North Twin Lake,
staying between Perrow Point and Spring Island, and then veering
eastward past Snake Point in sight of the settlement of Norcross.
The channel then passes due east through the Elbow to North Twin
dam. The length of the channel is about 11.5 miles. The combined
length of the lake from the North Twin Dam, following the channel
in reverse to the Porus Islands and thence to the northwest corner
of Pemadumcook at Nahmakanta Stream, is nearly 14 miles. There is a
large boulder in Nahmakanta Stream where the Appalachian Trail
appears on the south bank of the stream. It is not prudent to take
a motorboat west of the boulder.
The meaning of Pemadumcook in Penobscot is "lake with gravelly or
sandy bottom or sand bars". The principal islands in the lake
include the Porus Islands in Pemadumcook, Jo Mary Island on the
south side of that lake and Moose Island and Gull Rock on the north
side of the lake. The Porus islands, while principally in
Pemadumcook, do divide Pemadumcook to the west and south from
Ambajejus to the north. The islands separating North Twin Lake from
South Twin Lake are all south of Spring Island. The channel between
North and South Twin Lake between the western shore and these
islands runs north and south and is called the Narrows. The islands
in South Twin include the Rock Pile which marks the southwest
corner of the archipelago of islands separating North and South
Twin Lakes, Peanut Island, and the reef that runs between it and
the Rock Pile to the north. There are a couple of islands in
Partridge Cove at the southeast corner of the lake, and Oak Island
and several other islands are on the south side of the lake at the
mouth of Ragged Brook.
The deepest parts of the lake are 103 feet, about 0.5 miles
southwest of Moose Island in Pemadumcook, and 92 feet, just north
of the ridge in Ambajejus Lake. There are numerous rocks in the
lake, and the spring runoff brings lots of logs floating about. If
the water is quite high one need not concern oneself about boulders
in the middle of the lake. Exceptions include but are not
restricted to a large reef at the west end of South Twin Lake that
runs north and south and a large rock pile 1 mile north-northwest
of Partridge Cove which is usually marked. There are a couple of
reefs in North Twin and a long reef about 600 feet north of Indian
Point Island. The Porus Islands and Deep Cove have plenty of
boulders. There is a surprising rock pile about 0.5 miles east of
Jo Mary island.
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