Sunday, June 10, 2018 I woke just after sunrise and was able to get a small time lapse shot of the sun just above the treetops. It was shaping up to be a beautiful day and that's great because we wanted to move to Iron Lake. We ate a breakfast of skillet eggs with peppers and bacon wrapped in soft tortillas with some hot sauce. We had four portages and three lakes to cross to get to Iron. We paddled over to the 320 rod portage into Fox Lake, which I knew would be the most challenging portage of the trip for our group. There's lots of step over's, lots of muskeg and lots of hills to navigate along this mile trek. It took our group about an hour when it was all said and done. I started to get nervous about finding a campsite on Iron because when we got to Fox Lake, there was another group there just leaving camp towards Iron Lake. Then we got to Rush Lake and the lone campsite there was occupied, then on to Dark Lake and luckily there was nobody there as we paddled past the campsite. When we got to Iron, there was a group paddling by, fishing, must have been trolling for Pike as they were moving pretty fast. We paddled out to the Peterson Bay site, occupied, then we moved on towards the small cove site to the NE of Peterson Bay, occupied. Joe and Tristan paddled west to check out the sites on that end of the lake while Doug, Dad and I paddled north to try the sites on Three Island. They were occupied, So we checked the two sites on the east end of the lake and they were both taken. We were paddling into the wind this whole time and it was beginning to exhaust us, so we decided to eat a snack and start drifiting back towards the middle of the lake to try and find Joe and Tristan and hope that they had better luck finding a site. As we drifted to the west side of Three Island, we saw a group leaving the cove site directly south of the western campsite on Three Island. We jumped on it. What a feeling of relief, I really didn't want to do any more portaging today. We waited a few minutes for Joe and Tristan and when they didn't show up, I went out to find them. They were on the west side resting after finding every site occupied. I led them back to our site and we ate a well deserved, late lunch. This would be our home for the next 4-5 nights. ~Fox Lake, Rush Lake, Dark Lake, Iron Lake