The next morning after a great breakfast of French Toast, hard boiled eggs, fruit and hot chocolate, Round Lake (where the lodge is located and is the put in lake to the Missing Lake EP) greeted us with a hellacious head wind, white caps and all. As Old Scout was soloing and I was going to use my SR17 turned around for soloing, Andy easily talked me into leaving behind the 17 footer and taking a Wenonah Prism instead. I am so glad I did as the wind was steady into the next day.

We headed over with only a little difficulty. Here is Old Scout putting in on Missing Link:

The portage from Missing Link into Snipe was challenging with a 3 foot drop on the first leg that required putting down the canoe, jumping down and bringing the boat back over, but it was done without complaint and into Snipe we went.

Per Bogwalker's recommendation, we planned to camp at least one night on Snipe and maybe even base camp there. So we took the first site after the portage that unfortunately was not a respite from the incessant wind coming out of the west. It went on all night and into the morning with little let up.

However, it wasn't enough to prevent Old Scout from grilling his famous spiced steaks over the fire that night:

In setting up camp, I used an Alps Mountaineering Mystique 2 person tent:

While Old Scout used a 3 person REI dome tent. The only problem was he also has an REI dome that is a 2 person tent and packed the poles from the 2 person with the 3 person tent. The results came out quite interesting:

(Far be it for me to question the legendary Old Scout’s tent packing abilities!)

While the campsite was a little worn, Snipe Lake is a real diamond. Some loons were entertaining us off the point:

Here's a view from the site:

I LOVE my CCS pack! (Snipe sight):

The next day we decided to check out Snipe’s other sites to see if we could re-locate to another that would shield us from the wind.

Here is OS heading for the island site:

The island site was nice but didn't really have adequate tend pads (especially for an REI 3 with REI 2 poles!), and the middle site wasn't all that great. The last site was occupied so we decided to go for the west one in Cross Bay.