We begin with a granola bar breakfast and hit the water. We portage out of Friday Bay via Papoose Creek way with the much anticipated Wagosh Portage. I knew it was long as they did also. To ease the potential burden of it we walked together and talked a lot the entire way. As far as I am concerned this is the only way to do it with kids. So canoe overhead we took off. I will confess that by the time we reached the end I needed their help getting the canoe off my shoulders. I went back with the boy enjoying the morning and go the larger external frame pack. I prefer to bring the external frame pack as it does not sit directly on the bottom of the canoe thus keeping it dry and much lighter.  It was a very difficult day of travel. We faced strong South winds the entire day through the small lakes then Gun, Fairy, and boot. We opted to stay on Boot the next site south of the site directly across from “THE WALL.” It was a good site though the landing was very tough and it lacked good firewood. It saddens me to see how people treat the sights located closer to the entry points such as this one. When we set up camp we got to work fixing the benches around the kitchen area. It is almost as if someone thought they would use the ends of them as firewood. Beyond that you don’t have to look far to see downed tree (cut) in nearly every direction. 

The site had several good tent pads which was a welcoming sight as opposed to where we came from. (It was worth it) It had two grassy sites and we slept well. I went out to troll for some Walleye for dinner and caught a few but only one nice walleye at what I would say was 3#. I put it on a stringer with on other smallish eye. We did not get to do a fish fry that evening due to the rain. I believe it was a bit warmer that night and with me having the wrong sleeping bag that was nice.  We did an inventory of the food we had left in the pack and decided we were low enough on supply that we had to be very careful with what and how we ate. This was an issue, especially coming off a high calorie burned day big paddling and portaging we came off of. To me the lack of food we had in our pack was very concerning, more than I let on to them.