You Don't Catch, You Don't Eat
by rockstaranon
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
05/16/2011
Entry & Exit Point:
Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days:
6
Group Size:
5
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Day 6 of 6
Day 6: Back up the Horse River to Tin Can Mike.
We’re up at about 5:30am, eat a breakfast of oatmeal, granola bars, and coffee/hot chocolate. Camp is broken down and we’re back on the trail by 6:15am. We make it all the way to the end of the first portage when Rob realizes he doesn’t have his fishing pole and reel, and we’re missing the extra paddle. No one remembers grabbing it so I hand the leadership and the map off to Kid along with my sturdy solo canoe and they push on ahead while Rob and I make a B- line back to our makeshift campsite to pick up his pole and the paddle. We head back again and actually manage to make it through almost all the rapids against the current. Man the Horse River is a lot of fun! As we’re nearing the last set of rapids, an elderly couple passes us and asks, “Is one of you Jim?” I say that’s me. “One of your guys dumped the canoe trying to make the rapids up ahead and lost the minnow bucket, I caught it floating down river and left it at the mouth of the portage.” We catch up to the group at the 90 rod portage from Horse to Tin Can Mike. The guys are waiting at the beginning of the portage for us, and said they hadn’t been there for more than 10 minutes. As Rob and I unload, Papa tells me that the group has made a unanimous decision that they would like to go home today. Now I REALLY don’t want to leave, but I understand the guys’ desire to head out a day early. The last few days have been pretty epic; we’re exhausted, sore, and hungry, so I concede. We stop at the first campsite on Tin Can Mike and I go to the highest point in the site and manage to get one bar of service, but that’s all I need. I call CBO and they said they’d have someone out there waiting for us. We make a quick lunch of the last of the food we have, shake and pour pancakes, and push on for the last leg of the trip. As we paddle down Picket Creek to our exit point I reflect on the past 6 days. I’ve had more adventures on this trip then I had on the past 3 combined. We arrive at Mudro and chat it up with a couple guys from Indiana who said they brought 75lbs of beer in with them, and had just finished the last of it that morning. Wow. CBO arrives 10 minutes later and our trip is complete. Webb and Papa head home and Rob J, The Kid, and I stop in Ely for beers and burgers at The Boathouse. Thanks Bdub, and I’ll see you in August!
We’re up at about 5:30am, eat a breakfast of oatmeal, granola bars, and coffee/hot chocolate. Camp is broken down and we’re back on the trail by 6:15am. We make it all the way to the end of the first portage when Rob realizes he doesn’t have his fishing pole and reel, and we’re missing the extra paddle. No one remembers grabbing it so I hand the leadership and the map off to Kid along with my sturdy solo canoe and they push on ahead while Rob and I make a B- line back to our makeshift campsite to pick up his pole and the paddle. We head back again and actually manage to make it through almost all the rapids against the current. Man the Horse River is a lot of fun! As we’re nearing the last set of rapids, an elderly couple passes us and asks, “Is one of you Jim?” I say that’s me. “One of your guys dumped the canoe trying to make the rapids up ahead and lost the minnow bucket, I caught it floating down river and left it at the mouth of the portage.” We catch up to the group at the 90 rod portage from Horse to Tin Can Mike. The guys are waiting at the beginning of the portage for us, and said they hadn’t been there for more than 10 minutes. As Rob and I unload, Papa tells me that the group has made a unanimous decision that they would like to go home today. Now I REALLY don’t want to leave, but I understand the guys’ desire to head out a day early. The last few days have been pretty epic; we’re exhausted, sore, and hungry, so I concede. We stop at the first campsite on Tin Can Mike and I go to the highest point in the site and manage to get one bar of service, but that’s all I need. I call CBO and they said they’d have someone out there waiting for us. We make a quick lunch of the last of the food we have, shake and pour pancakes, and push on for the last leg of the trip. As we paddle down Picket Creek to our exit point I reflect on the past 6 days. I’ve had more adventures on this trip then I had on the past 3 combined. We arrive at Mudro and chat it up with a couple guys from Indiana who said they brought 75lbs of beer in with them, and had just finished the last of it that morning. Wow. CBO arrives 10 minutes later and our trip is complete. Webb and Papa head home and Rob J, The Kid, and I stop in Ely for beers and burgers at The Boathouse. Thanks Bdub, and I’ll see you in August!
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