Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

Half solo, half family trip
by BlueSkiesWI

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 08/22/2015
Entry & Exit Point: Clearwater Lake (EP 62)
Number of Days: 5
Group Size: 3
Day 2 of 5
Sunday, August 23, 2015

I knew there wasn't a sunrise with the weather system going thru so I slept in til around 6:30 that morning. I had my cup of camp coffee and made an eggs and bacon burrito. I packed up camp and hit the water again around 9. The paddle to the East Pike portage (177 rods) was a quick one with a 30 mph tailwind. I came to East Pike lake and enjoyed the paddle across it. As I was paddling a passed a campsite of people, ending a 23 hour streak of not seeing anyone. I ate a cheese and summer sausage tortilla wrap for lunch at a campsite on East Pike. The portage to John lake was another 211 rod one, but wasn't too difficult. I got the most southwestern campsite on John lake, which was a pretty windy one. I ate some barbeque beef wrapped up in a tortilla for dinner, and the wind was nonstop I turned in to bed pretty early.

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