Sunday, August 05, 2012 We slept great that night. It rained for a few hours and Newman hear an animal outside the tent at one point. Likely a mouse but he was intent on getting out to investigate for a while. We we're glad for our smartwool sweaters in the morning, it had to be in the 50's but it felt great. The weather in Iowa had been over 100 ever day for 3 weeks with mid 80's overnight so this was a welcome change! Newman doesn't recall very well so he spent the trip on a tie-out or leash but LeeRoy liked to run around in the morning My wife made us some oatmeal and coffee while I started to tidy up the site in preparation for our departure later that morning.  After breakfast I wandered around camp snapping pictures of the old logging equipment, there's a couple big tanks on the trail into camp with an old gas pump leaned up on them other than that there are some pipes and random drums along with an old bed frame sporadically placed around the outskirts of camp. It's too bad American Pickers can't get up there, this stuff would be right up their alley! We packed up and hit the trail be 10:30. Believe it or not we're on the trail in these pictures, good luck finding it :) There was really only a few places where it got a bit confusing but all in all it was "rougher" than we expected. Like I said I was picturing it in my head like a portage and that wasn't the case. We packed a bit heavy for bushwhacking :) but we got it done.  It took us about an hour before we reached the Whiskey Jack camp site turn off, we didn't go in but I snapped a photo And Whiskey Jack Lake From there we continued on towards Home Lake. There are some amazing bluffs you walk across and the pictures just don't do it justice. On one bluff you could see Gull Lake in the distance although I forgot to take a picture. We saw some moose tracks and plenty of dropping but never caught a glimpse of one or any large game for that matter, but we weren't exactly stealthy which such full packs, plus we had the dogs. Plenty of up and down this hills We stopped for lunch at the site on the north end of Home Lake. The camp is just off the portage and not near the water so I was glad we were moving on. Plenty of fire wood though. After a break and a nice meal we loaded back up and continued on. We'd crossed some pretty wet areas and had to jump some small water crossings but just 15 minutes down the trail we hit a relatively major one, for the dogs anyways. It may not look it but the water was over Newman's head. We didn't really want to wade across or take our shoes off/roll up our pants so we looked for alternatives. First we tried some fallen logs but it was pretty unstable and rotten. Luckily we found a place where the rocks were close enough to cross. It was around 3 when we made it to the hiking camp site on the west side of Angleworm. It is up a hill from the water but I really liked the site. Perfect size for a small group. We set up camp and tried to get a picture of the 4 of us; someone was always moving.... My wife had quite the blister from the past 2 days, mostly I think because day 1 was so wet. But we had just the right thing to take care of a sore foot :) After dinner I tried fishing, the only bite I got was on my water filter, one big enough I'd like to have caught latched on to the big old pre-filter for our water pump. He wasn't interested in lures though. The dogs were OUT before us that night and we all slept great.