Lost Pond

The only men said to have seen Lost Pond are both dead—and their tales promise water boiling with trout.

In July, on Seward Mountain in the Long Lake country, the narrator and his companion Bige set out to find the pond guides have searched for and never found. They pack light—or think they do—and leave the lake for miles of ridges, swamps, dense forest, and country untouched by lumbermen. When their first chosen basin holds no pond at all, Bige suggests they go home. But the narrator has never been good at leaving the impossible alone, and the mountain has plenty more surprises in store. Is Lost Pond waiting beyond the next ridge, or is the legend all they’ll bring back?

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