Saturday, October 21, 2017 We rose with the sun and immediately started packing up while I made breakfast. Our goal today was to head back to Horse or Tin Can Mike to camp our last night closer to the EP so that we could be back in Ely around lunch time and home by dinner tomorrow. I knew we could navigate the Horse River faster if we lined through the rapids which we were able to do and made it to Horse Lake in only 3 hours travelling upstream. I'd like to think lining made all the difference, but we were able to single portage as we had eaten about 3/4 of our food. The point campsite by the river was occupied so we paddled south to the campsite by the "pinch" between the southern bay and the main lake and it was a gem. Nice kitchen, tent pads and beautiful rock point where you can see the entire northern lake. There's also a sweet logging relic on that rock point as well. I treated my hard working son and dad to our first "hot lunch" of the trip as I prepared a Mountain House Mexican Rice and Beans meal that was awesome. I wish I had brought a few tortillas and hot sauce, that would have made it even better...next time. Douglas filtered some water, spotted a grouse and we tried fishing the "pinch" to no avail. Doug and I hiked around and spotted two Bald Eagles soaring above us, one was an adolescent as it didn't have the white tail or head yet. They were fun to watch. Doug climbed some glacial boulders near our site and then we ventured back for dinner. Tonight's dinner was a BWCA.com recipe from the Camp Cooking Forum, stuffing with foil pack chicken smothered with gravy. Awesome. It was gobbled up in no time and we ate the last of our Snickers bars for dessert. It was threatening rain all day, but all we got was a drizzle during our paddle today which was nice because we didn't need to dry out much back at camp except our sweaty clothes. We tuned in the Gopher hockey game for a while on the radio before we all got tired by the start of the 2nd period and turned in for the night. It rained around midnight and again at 2 am, but the wind picked up like crazy after that and by morning the tent fly was almost dry.