The next day we left Elf to make our way across some (now-cleared) trails and lakes to Granite Lake where we would visit Granite Falls (pictures later) and look for potential campsites along the way. Each site was explored and if determined to be "campable", it was waypointed on the GPS. No campsites were cleared or prepared unless we were camping there ourselves. Here is one old fire ring we found along the way:

and another:

Who knows how long it had been since another human here looked out over a crackling fire onto a beautiful lake?

We found this old hatchet scarred log on another site:

Here is our 2nd site (one night only) on upper Granite Lake:

I found this rock with a ring of crystal in its center at the site to be very interesting. I dubbed it the "Saturn Rock".

Here is another view from our 2nd campsite:

So we mostly paddled and inventoried campsites with a stop at the falls. It was a welcome day of leisure compared to the clearing the day before.

And as you will see in the next section, it wasn’t all work and no play.