Woke up to a beautiful day despite rumors of rain. 50 rods out of the South Arm was a nice flat portage, then did the 80 rods into Amoeber. There was a nice climb up to Amoeber, but nothing too bad. Two more quick little portages took me into Cherry. I was aiming for the Eastern site(site #322), and it turned out I had my choice of either site.

I'd heard great things about the Eastern site, but I have to admit I was a little let down. For one, the place was absolutely trashed when I got there. I more than doubled the weight of my trash I was packing out while I was there. Also, it looked like someone had set fire to one or more of the benches around the fire pit. I cleaned the place up as best I could and considered trying to fashion a new bench but couldn't find the motivation.

Set up the hammock right near the water and did some fishing as the sun went down. Caught about half a dozen smallies (nothing bigger than 2 lbs.) right off shore from the site fishing with a Jitterbug. Fished until they stopped biting and went to bed around midnight. Rain and wind hit pretty hard about 5 minutes after I got in the hammock, and it kept me up late, so I just read until it stopped.

Day 15 route.