Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

The Trip From Hell
by ShimmieShakes

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/21/2002
Entry & Exit Point: Snowbank Lake Only (EP 28)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 5
Day 4 of 5
Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Finally, a good night of sleep. We left our crappy campsite and pushed on to Ashigan, Cattyman, Gibson, and then Jordan. On one of these portages, can't remember which but I think its Cattyman, there is a water fall which is really nice. It would have been better if it wasn't crowded by the boyscout troop from hell. Seriously, 14 year boys with their scout master drinking glass bottles chalk full of alcohol. I am no expert but something tell me they weren't trying to earn a badge. This was by far the best part of the trip. Our campsite was secluded and huge. There was also lots of things to explore and even a nice trail to the biffy. We decided to revamp our trip after realizing that what we had planned would take too long. We decided the next day we would do disappointment mountain and then leave the following day. We spent the remainder of our day swimming and hiking. We even found a really cool cave. The picture is from the following year when we returned to this campsite, but this is what the cave looked like.