Our guide overslept this morning-even though her head was on top of her watch alarm. We made good time once we got on the water, paddling the rest of Disappointment, Parent, and Snowbank. We made it to the portage from Disappointment to Parent early enough to wake up the people camping there. They had paddled all of Disappointment the night before, and were disappointed  because there were no sites left. Parent was a quick paddle. We could hear the motorboats on Snowbank as soon as we hit Parent. On the second trip across the portage, there was a crane sitting on a rock just off the end of the portage. We made good time across Snowbank and the only motorboat we saw on the entire trip was very curtious! We got to the landing, loaded all of our gear, and headed into the outfitters in Ely.

There we unloaded our gear and sorted it, went thru the highlights of our trip with Jason (the owner of Ely Outfitting Company), and best of all- had a HOT shower!

We grabbed the traditional Subway lunch and ice cream in Ely and hit the road.

We had a great adventure and are ready to start planning next year! I think one of our favorite things about this years trip was that because the evenings were cool, there were almost NO bugs. The days were comfortable, but the evenings did cool off. Lakes: Disappointment, Parent, Snowbank Distance: 4 miles paddled, 185 rods portaged.