Sunday, June 11, 2017 We broke camp and headed out of the BWCA. Everything went pretty normal, except the sun was not shining for our last day in the Wilderness. We eventually got back to Polly, and I could not for the life of me remember which arm we came from. Fortunately, Peter remembered, and we did not have to dig out the maps. Coming out of Polly, the forest is in full force. After climbing the embankment of rocks, the forest is gone to the south, where the Pagimi fire burned. It is such of contrast of forest to desolate prairie, except for all the toothpick tree trunks which have been burned, but still standing in silhouette. The mist was turning to a light rain as we entered Kawashachong. Again, I could not remember from where we came, but Peter got us right to the river and before long we portaged around the beaver dam. After reaching Square Lake, we went right past the river mouth again and had to circle back. As we got closer to Kawishiwi, I had my first Moose sighting in the Boundary Waters. I had seen moose before in Southeastern North Dakota, but this habitat seemed much better for them. After the excitement/fear of being within 50 yards of a moose (raining so camera was packed away) – but this is pretty much what we saw (not my picture, just for illustrative purposes of what I remember seeing!), except it was raining. After this excitement, it was nice to get back on Kawishiwi Lake and track across to the Entry point. Another wonderful trip wrapped up, as nice or nicer than the journey to Jordan in August of 2016.  Postscript: I had a conference in Brooklyn Center the next day, so I drove down to Wild River State Park, and the exciting part about getting to camp another night was the sign entering the park “brake for snakes” I was tenting in a Snake research Area! Oh happy days! Best part is I lived to speak of this adventure, and did not see a single snake in the state park!