Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

1st Timers 8/21/10
by friman001

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/21/2010
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 2
Day 4 of 5
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Horse Lake, Fourtown Lake - A light rain in the middle of the night, but did not lose any sleep over it. Woke up to yet another beautiful morning. More coffee and some freeze dried granola and blueberrys. Lunch was skipped and replaced with a few granola bars. I was only anticipating 2 portages today, but forgot about the additional 2 not marked on the map. We now really had a grip on the whole portage process, and felt much more confident in our travel. We selected the campsite on the South end of the lake on the small half island. We first checked out the site on the South end located near the Winter trail. Too much wind coming in. At our campsite, there was an old metal wheel with old beer cans and bottles. Down towards the shore embedded within the rocks is an old thick chain. We joked that Fourtown lake should be named Tin Can Mike due to all of the rusty cans and scrap metal laying around. A dinner of Mac-and-cheese. What would I have done without the MSR pocket rocket stove? Worked perfectly. - We had a perfect "finale" campfire with wood mostly taken from the campsite on the other side of the half island. Thank you to whoever left this excellent fire wood.