Day 4. Slept like a baby. When you have a tent under a rain fly/tarp, then you don’t need to put the rain fly on the tent, and it stays so much cooler in there. Think I’ll do that more often. Packed up early, as usual, and headed towards Vernon. I made a mental note never to go from Vernon to Brule because it’s more of a cliff than a portage. Saw a swan on Vernon and I told it that it was on the wrong lake. The 290 rod portage from Vernon to Swan was relatively easy going. I had planned to stay on Swan, but 2 sites were taken and I hate “crowds” so I decided to move on. Ironically when I got to the next lake there were 2 more swans with cygnets! It was looking like weather was brewing, so I decided to push on to the finish line. About 4 more portages, got to Bower Trout lot a little afternoon, walked a mile or 2 to get my truck at the Ram lot, and beat the storms. The whole route from Brule to Bower Trout was beautiful and I would highly recommend it. I read about people going in reverse from Bower Trout to Ram and I’m not sure why they do. If you go Ram to Bower Trout it is more downhill than uphill (except at the beginning) and you are going with the current of the Brule River. Terrific route that I would recommend to anyone that doesn’t mind a little portaging.