What a difference a day makes. It rained hard during the night. There was a strong north wind and the temperature was about 30 degrees cooler.

We packed, had a quick breakfast, and hit the water. The north wind was making pretty big waves on Disappointment. But the wind was nearly perfectly behind us. We made good time.

The portage from Disappointment to Snowbank was uneventful. We ran into a group that was doing trail maintenance. They seemed to have worked hard but had a good trip.

Snowbank was interesting. The wind from the north was kicking up whitecaps and pretty big waves. We tried to stay near shore and worked our way around the islands on the southern edge of Snowbank. We made it out and were happy to have had a Souris River canoe. We saw other folks with aluminum canoes. They seemed to only a few inches of free board on their canoes. I hope they made it out of Snowbank…

We loaded the van, had a shower at Jordan’s and hit the road.

One word of caution: make sure you have a full tank of gas when you leave Ely. We drove the Highway 1 road to Duluth. We just about ran out of gas. I even needed to add about a quart of coleman fuel to the tank. We didn’t figure that we wouldn’t see a gas station for 60 miles...