Friday, June 14, 2019 We wanted to travel today to get through the portages west of Knife so we could easily catch our 8:30am tow the next day. We paddled through light rain all the way across SAK but it luckily ended before the portages. We shed our rain gear and made fairly quick work of the portages and then started looking for sites on Birch. We stopped at 1239 because it was the only one open of the first set of 3. It’s an ok site, but the previous tenants had left it a mess. Food left in the fire grate area, fishing lures left there too, and then while looking for firewood we found what looked like a whole pot’s worth of food tossed out and covered with a few green pine branches. Luckily we had no animal issues but it wasn’t great. Oh yeah, and one of the logs from the camp furniture was still smoldering from a 2nd fire they had outside the grate. We got some fishing in later in the day after stuffing our faces with food and did alright on the bass and pike including a nice large mouth.