In this informative memoir, the author recounts his 28 years at a Gunflint Lake cabin. But the prognosis for the future is grave, he warns, as a new lifestyle of affluence reshapes the landscape into Suburbia North. It is time that an old cabin owner chronicle these cabin days, hoping that an older reader might say, ''oh, yeah, I remember that,'' or a younger reader longing for a simpler, less stressful lifestyle may say, ''Hey, cool.''