Lakes: Ensign, Splash, Newfound, Moose Portages: 8 Rods: 180x2, 25x2, 10x2, 20x2, 10x2, 30x2 Total Rods: Total Distance: 7.5

I got up pretty early and made haste for Moose and my exit. Being stubborn and not wanting to pony up the money for a tow meant I had some paddling to do. The wind was fairly brutal on Moose with whitecaps in the larger bodies of water. Took me some time to get down and battled numerous headwinds and crosswinds to get to where I needed to be. I'm not sure if I would have preferred those winds on the first day of the trip or the last day. My arms were screaming by the time I got to the put-in.

I was happy to be out, but would just as soon have spend a night in a bed and gone on another nine-day trip. Someday.

I didn't bother with a shower and drove straight through to home to the Milwaukee area. That made my wife happy. Very happy. I was very dark-skinned after just one week from rationing the suntan lotion.