ELY â Canoe Country Outfitters made the 911 call. A canoe overturned on the East Loon Bay Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. One man swam to shore. The other was missing.
It was around 11:41 a.m. on Monday when the St. Louis County Sheriffâs Office received the call and joined its Rescue Squad, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Crane Lake Fire and First Responders and the Orr Ambulance in responding to Handbergâs Marine on Crane Lake for the water emergency on East Loon.
The men, Denis Guenther, 65, of Grand Junction, Colo., and Wayne Morrow, 73, of Fort Lupton, Colo., had been canoeing on the lake âwhen they encountered heavy rain and winds due to a severe storm passing through the area,â the St. Louis County Sheriffâs Office said in a news release on Tuesday.