This was our last full day and we had a day trip planned - over to Korb River and Korb Lake, back around to the south end of Cummings and back. Just an easy loop - we wanted to fish Korb and then have a happy hour up on the clifftop campsite with a box of wine.

So we took our time making breakfast in the morning and doing things around camp. At some point in early afternoon we headed east from our site to the portage from Cummings to the Korb River. It's a fairly rugged portage with not so great landings, but we didn't have our gear with so it wasn't a problem.

As we got on Korb we started fishing (not catching) and working our way southwest down the length of the river, then into the lake. I like these narrow lakes - very pretty. At some point we saw clouds from the south begin to form. They came upon us quick and before we knew it, it was misting hard, then raining. We pulled into the clifftop campsite on Korb and it was a scramble to stash the canoes and find some semblance of shelter at the site.

This set off a pretty hilarious hour in the boundary waters. It donned on us that we had left every piece of rain gear we had with back at camp. AND, that we hadn't necessarily secured camp...and when I say "necessarily" I mean "at all."

A couple of the guys realized they had probably left the rain fly's open on their tents. We all realized we did not put the food or gear packs under the tarp we had set up. Seriously, we had taken the time to set up a really good rain tarp, but didn't put anything under it when we left camp. We weren't expecting rain and weren't really expecting to be gone all that long. Lesson learned!

All we could do was laugh. It wasn't worth trying to get back to camp in this weather. So we did exactly what we had planned....although we did not bring any rain gear, we DID bring six camp chairs, six camp cups, and a full box of wine (perfectly prepared in my opinion). So we hunkered down under a tree in camp, took a seat and passed the box around!

We were definitely getting wet...some of us cold as well. But the rain finally let up at about the same time we killed the box of wine, so we lumbered our soggy butts back out onto the lake, through the portage back to Cummings, and fished our way back up to camp.

In camp, we had some soggy gear and yes, some soggy tents (mine was all good though!) The sun was back out though so things were drying out nicely. We did watch (and hear) another storm form and roll south of us. We could see lightning and some crazy cloud formations, but it never got to us. It turns out that was actually a pretty severe storm with some high winds and, like mentioned, plenty of lightning.

Evening was dinner and some fun fishing from shore...I still had leeches left and finally found a little hole off shore where I could catch fish basically at will once I dialed the slip bobber to the right depth. Throw it out to that spot, start a little countdown, and by 10 I was getting a bite every time. That was pretty fun catch and release fishing.

Our campfire this night was even more pathetic than last night...because of the rain now our wood was even more soggy. We just never made it a priority to go out and find good firewood so we paid the price at night. Not a big deal though, we keep each other plenty entertained, fire or not.