We planned to get to Sucker or Newfound today so that we had a short travel day tomorrow.

We met and essentially travelled with two men in their maybe mid-50s and the father of one of the men for most of the day as we overlapped on portages between Knife to Birch. We helped one of them convince the other two that Green Bay had beaten the Vikings. The ruse lasted until the end of the day when we passed them at their campsite. We also met a nice father and adult son pair on the portages.

Rain started around 8:00am and was nonstop except for a handful of 10-30 minute breaks for the next two days. We were soaked and very glad to set up the tarp at campsite 1278, the 5th campsite west of the east end of Birch. Managed to set up the tent during one of the rare breaks in the rain. Campsite was decent but given the weather most sites would have seemed that way.

Weather was cloudy, rainy, low wind to calm. Overnight was the coldest of the trip. Rain beginning in the late afternoon around 3:00pm was heavy and nonstop until we paddled up to our outfitter the next day at noon-ish. Our DD Hammocks 3mx4m tarp was a champ at keeping us and our equipment dry for over 18 hours of constant rain.

~Knife Lake, Seed Lake, Melon Lake, Carp Lake, Birch Lake