BWCAW - Day 4

Thursday was the BIG day of portaging - 6 portages (30, 180, 20, 80, 180, and 100 rods) - a total of 590 rods! That's less than two miles, but when you're carrying a 40 lb. pack across rocks, fallen trees, mud, and inclines - it feels a lot longer. After a hearty breakfast of french toast and bacon (which took way too long to cook), here we are, ready to head out on the first portage.


Along the way you see some intersting stuff, like this thing. I think it's some kind of fungi; sort of looks like a red brain.

This is on the 180 rod portage, beautiful view at the top, but tough to get there.

Time for a swim - the portage made this little girl hot and thirsty.

We camped on Trident Lake, a smaller lake with only two campsites - no one was at the other one so we had the whole lake to ourselves - yeah! I didn't think there'd be anyone there because of the long portages. Lucky fish day - Todd caught two large mouth bass from the shore of our campsite. We also caught two Northern Pike, one small, the other very large but it managed to get "unhooked" and swam to freedom. This lake is not heavily used so the fishin' was good and it's only one of the few lakes with large mouth bass.


What do you do when you catch two fish? You throw the smaller one back, make a toasty camp fire, and...........

contemplate how good your dinner will be!


This is our new tent from REI - it's THE BEST! Super easy to put up and take down, sturdy and lots of ventilation; well worth the money.

By Thurday, someone had run herself so ragged, she couldn't wait to crawl in there for the night.