Poplar to Ham, via Winchell, Long Island, and Frost
by Jazzywine
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
08/17/2015
Entry Point:
Lizz and Swamp Lakes (EP 47)
Exit Point:
Cross Bay Lake (EP 50)
Number of Days:
9
Group Size:
6
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Day 9 of 9
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
After a trying week, you can imagine that we were anticipating the warmth and comfort of the indoors. We left our site early in the same soaking cloud of mist that plagued our whole trip. Deb (from Seagull Outfitters) told us our trip out would take about five hours from Long Island and we did not want to be late. We paddled eagerly into the wind all morning along a beautiful chain of lakes and connecting narrow streams with rock faces on either side. Near the end we started seeing people again, they were the first since about our third day. The whole trip took us under four hours and we arrived at the parking lot with two hours to spare.
We cooked one last lunch on the stove and changed into dry clothes while we waited for our ride who arrived half an hour early to take us to hot steamy showers and warm dry towels. On the way back our driver told us that many other groups had come in early. He said that we were “tough to stick it out in that weather”. We were proud, we were grateful to be back in real indoor dryness, and we were already talking about our next trip.
Long Island Lake, Karl Lake, Lower George Lake, Rib Lake, Cross Bay Lake, Ham Lake
After a trying week, you can imagine that we were anticipating the warmth and comfort of the indoors. We left our site early in the same soaking cloud of mist that plagued our whole trip. Deb (from Seagull Outfitters) told us our trip out would take about five hours from Long Island and we did not want to be late. We paddled eagerly into the wind all morning along a beautiful chain of lakes and connecting narrow streams with rock faces on either side. Near the end we started seeing people again, they were the first since about our third day. The whole trip took us under four hours and we arrived at the parking lot with two hours to spare.
We cooked one last lunch on the stove and changed into dry clothes while we waited for our ride who arrived half an hour early to take us to hot steamy showers and warm dry towels. On the way back our driver told us that many other groups had come in early. He said that we were “tough to stick it out in that weather”. We were proud, we were grateful to be back in real indoor dryness, and we were already talking about our next trip.
Long Island Lake, Karl Lake, Lower George Lake, Rib Lake, Cross Bay Lake, Ham Lake
Lakes Traveled:
Long Island Lake,
Karl Lake,
Lower George Lake,
Rib Lake,
Cross Bay Lake,
Ham Lake,
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