This IS part 4: A Long Paddle Day with a Sprinkle of Portage Monday June 3: Began our day under sunny skies a bit earlier around 9ish. Not an early riser but timing was improving. Found the portage and off we went to Elizabeth. Dead moose by portage. Trail itself had 3 or 4 mudholes with corduroy building towards full summer muck status. Longish trail compared to what was coming. Walter was a long paddle to next portage but winds were light and in the narrows, we lunched on a rock face and soaked up the sun just 50 or so rods from the double portage. Pulled ourselves over the rockface takeout (2 of us dumped, I slipped back in up to my knees to round it out at 3). Short portage onto shallow, sandy creek to next portage with lower rock portage before mini- rapids/current/falls into Lonely. Pretty day, sunny, no wind to speak of and a looongish paddle down to the portage into Sturgeon. Beaver dam or remnants thereof after second portage below falls and then into nor'eastern end of Sturgeon. Here began the really long paddle if you are silly enough (like me) to solo an 18fter with a group of tandems....I fell waaaaay behind our group and watched them disappear around the point and into Sturgeon Narrows as I reached the far eastern end of Scripture. Thankfully, there was no wind at all and it was full sunshine and no bugs.