Friday, August 7th, 2009 We got another early start with coffee and hot chocolate as usual, ate breakfast and broke camp for our last day’s paddle. We ran into two Park Rangers at one of the last portages. One wanted to know if we had seen any of their counterparts. We must have missed them at Agnes since that is where he said they would have been. We were an hour early (2 pm) for our pick up so we all just relaxed and snoozed during the wait. Our outfitter arrived and loaded up our gear and pulled out a cooler with soda and beer for the drive back to the bunkhouse. It was a welcoming sight and really tasted good during the drive.

Many thanks to the outfitter Ron and Annie at LaCroix and the members of this crew (Ed and Joe Fedrizzi, Jacob and Jason Stanley) of this trip for working hard at making it a success, but more importantly to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving us this opportunity to go and for being with us in spirit before, during and after.

Sincerely and with pleasure, JB Stanley