M and I were up early to photograph the sunrise before packing up and tripping to our destination of Tiger Bay on LLC, and it indeed was quite brisk before quickly warming up.

The paddles across Finger and Pocket were nice and it started to turn cloudy as we made our way down Pocket Creek to LLC. The 20-rod portage had more color than much of the surrounding area and emptied out into a pretty little bay. There is a beaver dam to pull over as you leave this bay from Pocket Creek. We made great time paddling east on LLC over to Fish Stake Narrows and stopped for lunch where were turned south toward Tiger Bay. We ate next to the first US border marker spotted on our trip.

We paddled over to the pictographs on the Canadian side after lunch and the wind kicked up as we were checking them out, so we decided to hit it to Tiger Bay. Our target was the site looking directly at Warrior Hill on the north side of an island but as we got close to the site, we noticed it was taken, so we paddled to the site on the southwestern side of the same island. Thankfully, it was open and awesome.

The site faces west and sits up on a small point featuring sand beaches on either side of the site. The wide-open pine forest behind camp houses a beautiful trail to the latrine and a few nice tent pads.

The forecast was for off and on rain for the next 4 days so we rigged the large CCS tarp and a smaller tarp to keep us dry.

We made pizza with the reflector oven for dinner, followed by some cookies. It drizzled for about 20 minutes off and on as we were cooking, but otherwise stayed dry. We enjoyed wine, another Sigurd Olson reading, journaling and a campfire before bed.