Saturday, September 22, 2018 My day started at 6:15, ate, packed and then sat enjoying my coffee and the view. I realized I had made one major gear error, I didn't bring any warm footwear for in camp. Hiking shoes and warm wool socks and thats it. Not a big deal now, but this is only day 6! Laughed to myself that if I had brought winter boots it would be 75' now instead of 40'. Was on the water at 9am, Hit the 30r and the very nice, mostly flat, long 340r portages around Basswood Falls. And I was onto Basswood lake. The rest of this day I am going to be very vague about due to high winds and surf shortly after I entered the main body of Basswood, forcing me to get the heck off the lake in a less than ideal spot. I named my site "Mossy Hump". I must admit though, in hind sight, that had I been more experienced and confident with my Prism I might have attempted to take Basswood on, but when that wind, waves, and swells got big, and a few times washed over the gunnels I got scared and played it safe. But, I promised my wife I would not take huge risks and sure as hell didn't want to use my PLB because I made a stupid decision. Spent a windy night on Mossy Hump.