A Week With My Brother
by hopalonghowie
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
09/07/2011
Entry Point:
Seagull Lake (EP 54)
Exit Point:
Saganaga Lake (EP 55)
Number of Days:
7
Group Size:
2
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Day 6 of 7
Day 5: 8.8 Miles 165 rods Lakes Paddled Hanson, Ester Ottertrack, Swamp, Saganaga I woke up feeling a little bit sore but got up early so I could throw out a line. Fished off of the peninsula at camp as the sun came up. Even caught a small Smallmouth. Wind was starting to pick up so I started tearing down camp. We got our summer sausage breakfast, made some Russian Tea and left camp. Royce blamed me for water filling up his boots again but other than that the paddle went well. We stopped for a couple photo ops on Monument Portage between Ottertrack and Swamp.
We had wind today and when we started seeing people on Swamp they said Sag was rough but the wind would be in our favor. Met a guy who was soloing with his dog who was headed to Link/Fish lake area for smallies. On Sag we quartered the wind which was blowing pretty much south east up to a tiny island south of Cache Bay. From there we B-ined for American point. The wind was now mostly at our backs so the wind wasn’t too much of a problem. Looking out at the lake from camp I’m surprised we did as well as we did. I asked my bro if he wanted to keep on past American Point to Long Island. He thought we’d be best off just staying put plus we knew that one of these was a good site. We were headed for the site just west of rocky point, passing open sites again. Luckily his site was open and it was perfect. We had a nice view of Sag with a bay south of us that was protected from the wind. There were about 5 tent pads one of which would even fit my ginormous family tent. There was an obvious bear rope tree. We later checked out another site just south of us in the protected bay and that one was quite rough especially compared to our Hilton campsite. Our last afternoon in the Boundary Waters was spent in comfort. We were off the lake by 13:00 and had some shore lunch wild rice soup which ended up tasting really good with the foil pack chicken. And all you have to do is add water. We managed our best bear hang yet at this site. We sat up around the campfire talking about the trip and eating the last of the smores.
We had wind today and when we started seeing people on Swamp they said Sag was rough but the wind would be in our favor. Met a guy who was soloing with his dog who was headed to Link/Fish lake area for smallies. On Sag we quartered the wind which was blowing pretty much south east up to a tiny island south of Cache Bay. From there we B-ined for American point. The wind was now mostly at our backs so the wind wasn’t too much of a problem. Looking out at the lake from camp I’m surprised we did as well as we did. I asked my bro if he wanted to keep on past American Point to Long Island. He thought we’d be best off just staying put plus we knew that one of these was a good site. We were headed for the site just west of rocky point, passing open sites again. Luckily his site was open and it was perfect. We had a nice view of Sag with a bay south of us that was protected from the wind. There were about 5 tent pads one of which would even fit my ginormous family tent. There was an obvious bear rope tree. We later checked out another site just south of us in the protected bay and that one was quite rough especially compared to our Hilton campsite. Our last afternoon in the Boundary Waters was spent in comfort. We were off the lake by 13:00 and had some shore lunch wild rice soup which ended up tasting really good with the foil pack chicken. And all you have to do is add water. We managed our best bear hang yet at this site. We sat up around the campfire talking about the trip and eating the last of the smores.
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