Waking up to another day in heaven was not expected. Ten days of quiet winds, no rain, few bugs and sunshine was not expected this year. In a short time we were loaded and headed down the lake to the first portage. The first portages of the day were relatively flat and we soon found ourselves on Fourtown Lake. We meet 5 ladies on a day trip and talked with them briefly before heading south to our exit and the "fun" portages. The portage out of Fourtown starts at a rockface that has limited landing and you must go up a steep face with gear and canoe. CG's reaction was "you got to be kidding me". Working together we made short work of the portage and headed to the next pond and the goat portage.

The goat portage isn't the worst portage by far in the bdub. But it definitely works your muscle and has some great drop offs to the side. We meet a young guy with his daughter heading into Fourtown for a few days, it was her first trip. They were on the way with our well wishes that the great weather would hold. We unpacked the canoe and began the portage with packs to see how good the portage was, on the way over we meet another group. The are a couple of guys with several older gentleman including a dad that was talked into the trip. We are back for our second trip before they have finished thiers and give them the last of our filtered water since they are entirely out and will not be to Fourtown for awhile. We are on our separate ways. After the showers we headed to Pizz Hut for some food and then started driving west to Iron Mountain to drop the canoe off for repairs and to have skid plates put on for next year. The drive uneventfull and we soon meet Chuck's mom at the shop and dropped the canoe off. She made sure we wrote down what was needed and assurred us that the repairs would be done. Thanking her we headed south for the 6-7 hour drive to Mankato..