Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Carp to That Man via Sheridan We woke up nice and early and brewed some good coffee. More fresh food with scrambled eggs and sausage. Though no fresh orange juice. We got all packed up and headed across the lake to the Sheridan Potage. We hit the water around 9:30. Saw one other canoe that had a solo guy fishing in the fog. It was still heavy overcast and not a sliver of Sun. The portage to Sheridan is not too long, but ALL uphill. It was basically a staircase. We got all the gear over and loaded up again for the short paddle around the corner to the next portage. That was the longer one. It was a little tricky and wet. That made it a lot of work and we were triple portaging, so we were pretty beat by the time we finished. Did I mention that the Quetico portages are not the superhighways of the BWCA. They are more like well-used PMA portages. There was one canoe at the portage landing and we saw them coming as we were about halfway through our first trip. Then met up with another group with two canoes and two dogs. One of the guys made a comment on it being as busy as a super highway.

We were eager to get along so we just had a little snack and some water. then onto That Man. We still wanted to make some time to get to the other end of the lake. It was getting early afternoon as we made our way up the lake so we thought it would be good to make camp. The weather was still looking threatening and still haven't seen the Sun but the clouds were thinning. We enjoyed the island life the night before so headed to the island at the North end of the lake. Success! The site was empty and we quickly landed and unloaded.

We got all set up and explored our second island campsite. I put my hammock up on the shoreline to be away from any bugs and have a lakeview. I was nice and luckily I have no sleepwalking issues

The clouds aren’t breaking up at all. As sunset approached we started to get dinner ready. Filet Mignon night, I could hardly wait! Well I'm going to have to wait, the steaks were still quite frozen. So it was bratwurst night instead. That's okay, everything tastes great out here and we were all satisfied. We were all ready for some more sleep. The clouds might have influenced our decision but we decided to spend a layover day there tomorrow. Off to the hammock with no particular plan the next day except maybe fishing. People seen: one fishing on Carp and three parties of two on the Sheridan/That Man portage Plus two doggies.