Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

An out and back for the first time
by bryanjp2

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 07/21/2009
Entry & Exit Point: Kawishiwi Lake (EP 37)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 2
Day 3 of 5
Thursday, July 23, 2009

We woke up later today at 9am. I guess it must have rained sometime during the night because things were wet again. At this point, I am just sick of everything being wet. Can't get a fire going again, start to cook eggs, toast, and oatmeal again. Finished breakfast, cleaned up, we made lunch and headed to Malberg for a day trip. My shoulders hurt twice as much because they were bruised from the day before. Never imagined how tough portaging can be. Today was the first day it wasn't raining every couple of hours. However we heard thunder continuously throughout the day in the distance. Thick, black clouds would miss us, keeping the sun shinning. We paddled around Malberg, tried some fishing. Didn't catch a thing, didnt help it was the middle of the day. We were going to go up into Kawishiwi River, but we felt we didn't have enough time. We then headed back, my poor shoulders.

We got back to camp around 6pm and started to make dinner. We made a freeze dried meal called I can't believe it's cheese pizza. It was ok, the breading as a crust was fine, the sauce we weren't fond of. We cleaned up did some night fishing, didn't catch much and went to bed. Then it poured and stormed all night long. Sounded like knives were trying to cut our tent. Sheets of rain hammered us all night long. Didn't sleep much.