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This Ain't no Fairy Tale! - July 2011 BWCA
by IndyScouters

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 07/03/2011
Entry & Exit Point: Lizz and Swamp Lakes (EP 47)
Number of Days: 9
Group Size: 6
Day 7 of 9
Day 7 - Thursday - July 7- This day started out breezy and cloudy, it would get worse! Started our morning out with oatmeal and coffee, quick and easy. Since it wasn't as nice as the day before, we chose the right day to make the Winchell loop, and we were staying close to camp today. Today we had Justin "walk on water", got lots of Eagle pictures, set up a "swamped" canoe with Justin, had a blast goofing around and kinda getting things ready for heading out on Friday. Lunch was a hodge podge of leftovers and dinner was Knorrs noodles with Foil pouch chicken, we ate good this week! We worked on adding a log seat to the sitting area of the fire pit, Jim sawed and burned a notch into a log so it would be stable, maybe we should rename Jim to Cody? Cody Lundin from dual survivor. Dang it Cody - I told you to have that signal fire ready! (Inside joke) Justin stacked all the leftover firewood neatly under some sitting logs so the next visitor would have dry wood when they arrived. late in the afternoon we had a storm come through, we had already ate lunch when it started so we just went into our tents to wait it out. About 20-30 minutes in the tents and a bright flash of lightening was followed by a roaring crack that shook the ground, Justin looked up from his book with big eyes and said "That was close!" and Jim was just falling asleep waiting the storm out - the thunder made him jump. It was loud! And it rumbled for a long time after the initial boom. That storm ended and we made biscuits with butter and honey for desert. While we were cleaning up from desert the next storm came in and it rained until sunset, stopped for a little while and then rained most of the night. pretty much got an early night in the sack.