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Far East Loop
by ferris51

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/06/2019
Entry Point: North Fowl Lake (EP 70)
Exit Point: Pine Lake (EP 68)  
Number of Days: 3
Group Size: 2
Day 2 of 3
Friday, June 07, 2019

Paddled the rest of the way through Moose, Vaseux, Fan, and Mountain Lake today. But in a lot of distance today. Portages were very muddy and difficult. Mountain Lake was beautiful. We had planned on staying on Mountain Lake but made it all the way through and decided to portage into Clearwater. The portage from Mountain to Clearwater was our first portage of the trip that was close to being all dry. It was a tough climb in elevation but this was also better maintained that the other portages we had been on. We stayed at the campsite the farthest east on Clearwater and it was an awesome campsite. Very large and elevated above the water. Would love to make it back there. Once again the little black flies made things unbearable if you had any flesh exposed in the evening or the morning.