Rain. Light, not windy. We were a bit slow moving. Egg and hash brown mix for breakfast, but G didn't secure the handle on his frying pan and dumped a quarter of it on the ground. Whoops. We ate the rest w/o frying it up; it was a little hard but not terrible. I proceeded to clean it all up, which was difficult because it was spread all over some rocks, in little nooks and crannies on the ground, all over the ground... took me like 20 minutes to be comfortable with the level of cleanliness. I don't want bears. After hanging for a bit, we strung up our rods and headed out for some fishing in the light drizzle around 12:30pm. Around 2 we put back in as the wind picked up, which got worse quickly after we got to shore. BUT!! We all caught out first lakers!!! G got the first, then E, then G got another, then me. All of them were probably 15-18 inches, perfect eaters. Chartruse jig heads and white twister tails were money. We just hit a dropoff 150ft from our campsite (only about 40ft away from shoreline) and it was game on.

G proceeded to clean them all and managed to cut himself -three- times. One was bad and it was just due to him not paying attention to where his index finger was on the blade as he pressed it into the fish. His finger was bleeding quite a bit, but nowhere near to a truly dangerous amount. We got him cleaned up and temporarily bandaged, and then he finished cleaning the fish!! Then we swapped out his bandage for a slightly looser one with more bacitracin (spoiler: no problems with it throughout the trip). We fried up the fish in small nuggets with vegetable oil and O M G... some of the best fish I've ever had. Best from MN for sure, best I've ever caught for sure. We were in heaven from these 4 lakers and relaxed in our camp, quite content. Due to rain and wind, we didn't have a fire that night.

Finally some holes in the clouds appeared and illuminated the hills around Kek. It felt magical. We were all giddy, filming the little bit of blue sky we could see, taking photos of the hillsides as more and more holes opened up. We went to the tent around 10pm and played Five Crowns until 11pm and hit the hay. As I stepped out to take a leak around midnight or 1am, the sky had completely cleared up, and there were endless stars as far as the eye could see. I was tempted to grab my binoculars and stay out for 20 minutes, but I didn't feel like risking some bugs, as it was dead calm.

This was a great day.