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What Vestibule?
by realandrea

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/18/2011
Entry & Exit Point: Snowbank Lake (EP 27)
Number of Days: 6
Group Size: 3
Day 2 of 6
Sunday, June 19, 2011

We were always taught when it rains, to never pack a tent wet, but on this trip, we would have gone nowhere if we hadn't done some of that. We managed the moisture the best we could in carefully chosen relatively dry sites, and ultimately probably wouldn't have moved had the rain poured down on us or had it rained continually to the point the temps finally dropped (which it did the last day). We spent a lot of the day trying to wait out the rain, leaving little time for travelling. That night we slept on Hatchet, which was the sloppiest I'd ever seen it with people's trash and handmade statues, with more rain that evening. We woke up the next day to a tent sprinkled in mayflies. 

Greg making dinner!