Duluth man missin in BWCA;

[Lee Borgersen]

  Duluth man missing in BWCA; sunken canoe found.

November 9. 2016

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Authorities searching for a missing Duluth man in the eastern Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness located a partially submerged canoe and other items believed to have belonged to the man, authorities reported Tuesday.

The Cook County sheriff’s office was notified at about 3 p.m. Monday that 59-year-old Michael Raymond Hickey had failed to report to work after a fishing trip to Pine Lake in the BWCAW over the weekend. Hickey had left Friday and was supposed to return Sunday, Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen said in a news release.

Darkness hampered the search late Monday , but the search resumed at daybreak Tuesday.

“We are conducting an extensive search and doing everything we can to locate Mr. Hickey, including a ground, water and air search with resources from the Sheriff’s Office, Search & Rescue, the United States Forest Service, United States Border Patrol, Minnesota State Patrol and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources,” Eliasen said. “We are working with Mr. Hickey’s son, who is currently at the scene.”

Pine Lake is located north of Hovland off the Arrowhead Trail, west of McFarland Lake.

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Sheriff’s deputies and Cook County Search and Rescue personnel found the Hickey’s truck at the McFarland Lake boat landing, and later found the partially submerged canoe registered to the missing man, “as well as paddles and personal effects” believed to belong to the man, Eliasen reported.

Eliasen said Hickey is a “longtime user of the area who has been fishing Pine Lake for many years.”