We slept in a little and enjoyed our scheduled day of “rest”. However, five of us in two canoes decided to try a “pleasure” excursion down Portage River and take the east fork to Legend Lake. We made it as far as the unnamed smaller lake west of Legend Lake, which was no small feat in itself. After a big river blockage that require dragging over 7 or 8 large trees, the river became smaller and winding through marshy areas. Almost every bend of the stream required getting out and stepping in the muck to get the canoes through. We could tell we were getting close to the first, unnamed lake, and we just hiked the last 300 feet through the muck and marsh. It was an underwhelming, desolate, muddy pond, half-full of large trees cut down by beavers. Although we brought lunch that was no fitting place to eat it so we took it back to camp with us. Anybody who has made it to Legend Lake from Nina Moose deserves a lot of credit. Our unsuccessful morning excursion was about three miles of paddling and a lot of muck walking. For an afternoon excursion that day, four members explored and climbed the high rock on the west side of Nina Moose Lake, elevation around 1400 feet above sea level. It provided a very nice view of the lake and rivers leading into it. Excursion distance: two miles. It was sunny and almost 80 degrees this day and ideal for napping on the big lakeside rock in front of the campsite. One of the tent sites had some levelness issues but we turned the tent a different direction and that fixed the problem for the second night there. The second night, it rained for 12 hours but we were prepared for it and had everything not in a dry bag under tarps. One of the tarp stakes gave way in the night because of soft soil and had to be corrected by the earliest risers. The rain let up about 6 a.m., so we could get up, eat, and packed to leave.