Sunday, July 04, 2010 About 9:00 pm it started raining - hard. It was still raining at 9:00 AM the next morning. The next day a USFS officer reported it rained 3 ½" in this western end. I was a little worried about tent - a Eureka Zues 3 - but it was a champ. A few drops but nothing really wetted. At 5 pounds, it’s spacious, wind worthy, and so simple to set up. It’s so good I can’t justify buying a CCS Lean.

Anyway, ate Clif bars and headed early toward Snow Bay - with the 5 star site as reported by collinal as the goal. Luckily, while if solos I might not have tried crossing LLC, it wasn’t in our Souris River Quetico 17. We took the short cut portage reported by wetcanoedog into Snow Bay - a raging stream this day - and found Snow Bay and the 5 star camp site vacant. Great, because we had a layover day and decided to stay here two days. The only serious defect - continual motor traffic in channel to the west.

Watched fire works from Zups Resort - of course kind of odd since it’s in Canada, but fun none the less. Rained quite a few hours the first night but of no consequence. Was very hot the next day - hard to find a breeze.

Nice improvements, including a camp fire ring to die for, as I hope the pictures suggest. A perfect solar shower area with neatly laid stones between a perfect “square” of 4 trees - about 4' on a side (for those that want some modesty and have a extra fly). Two tent pads in camp but a nice extra - another tent pad maybe 200 feet or so from the main site for acoustical separation for those groups where there might be tent time frolicking.

Lac La Croix