Forecast: Sunny, high of 68° Low of 52°

Lakes: Sagus, Shepo, Fraser, Thomas, Hatchet, Ima, and Jordan

Total Miles Traveled: 9.5

We wake up to a chilly morning; I finish off my hash browns and have a Mountain House scrambled eggs with bacon (YUK!). I need to bring more pancake mix, bagels, fresh eggs or something next year. Freeze dried breakfast sucks We pack up and head for Jordan along the routes we had taken in the previous year. You can tell we are back in the mainstream as we start to see a few groups here and there. All of the portages are easy as they are well traveled.

We catch some really calm paddling on Hatchet, we watch a flock of baby ducks with their momma cross in front of us, one gets cut off and we stop to allow it to go ahead of us, all with momma closely keeping an eye on us! Had to think of when animals attack for that one! By the time we hit Ima the wind has picked up again and we have to paddle briskly for a bit, but it seems to me that it’s just not as exciting or challenging when you have been there before.

As we head up the channel on Jordan from Ima, we notice a canoe with just one person in floating around by a rock formation. Then I see a person run from the 15’ cliff and plunge into the water. He is shortly joined by another jumper. We approach and are invited by the group from Denver to join in. Paul being a High School swim coach and sky-dive instructor needs no convincing and I agree after learning that the water is at least 15’ or more deep. We pull in and take off our boots and such and climb the cliff. Bill floats out to grab some pictures. We do 4 jumps thank the group and head off to find a camp site. We grab the northern most spot on Jordan and set up. It’s a sunny spot which allows us to dry off our gear and clothes.

About 2 hours later Paul and I decide to head back to do more cliff jumping. As I head toward the canoe a black snake hears me and runs for cover (and I almost do the same) I am not a snake person to say the least. Bill and Paul find this amusing. Anyway we head to the canoe and set out. Paul then gets the idea to tip us about 20 yards from shore and learns a canoe is not so easy to flip upright in the middle of a lake! So we pull back to shore and flip the canoe and head back to our jump spot. We make 3 more jumps (man that never gets old) and head back to camp.

Its Paul’s turn again for dinner and another Mountain House night, I have the Chicken and Noodles which isn’t bad, but again loaded with sodium. We finish our game of Gin Rummy from the other night which I win and play some Texas Hold’em using twigs leaves and stones as 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s. We never finish as the mosquitoes keep buzzing. We treated our clothes with Permathrin but that doesn’t stop them from annoying us.

We head to bed, it’s another cool night but nothing too bad.