Saturday, July 19, 2008 After breakfast we clean up the camp and pack up. Pretty foggy and wet this morning so it takes a little while to dry out the tent. By 9:00 we are headed back the way we came. Jordan, Cattyman, Gibson, and then the tough portage to Ashigan and into Ensign. One thing I did notice on the way back is that only 2 of the campsites on Ima still were occupied and to our big surprise, only one was occupied on Ensign as we traveled across it. We stopped at the campsite on Ensign right next to the portage into Splash Lake at 2:00. I was getting ready to set up camp. My son was pretty whipped all day today and started asking about how long it would be tomorrow to get back to Moose Lake. I told him that if he was real motivated we could be back in Ely, showered and eating at the Ely steak house by 7:00. My bad, he really wanted to get back, I really wanted to stay another night. But in keeping with my plan to let him make the decision, I left it up to him. So at 3:00 we headed out across Splash and into Newfound and finally Moose. We were lucky as it looked like it could rain all day but it never did and the wind, although in our face was never real strong. We stopped and picked up a couple of small Northern on a bay in Moose Lake and went back to the resort to end our BWCA trip. Back in Ely is was real tough to get a hotel room as there were 5 wedding’s in town that night and I think we got the next to the last room in town. After a shower and a great steak at the Ely Steak house we relaxed and went to sleep early.