Knowing if we pushed hard and navigated well, we were up early, packing at 5 and over the berm onto the main body of Sag by 7:30. Not far in, we hit our second slush patch of the trip, slowing our progress to America’s point. It was bigger than the first patch and required ski and sled scraping once we found good ice nearby. Even though it meant several more miles to go, seeing the rocks that meant Rocky Point and our turn east was a moment of relief. We were hoping that getting on to the motorized part of the lake would instantly mean snowmobile tracks and easier sledding. No such luck. As it turns out, snowmobiles have a much more restricted range on the southeastern part of the lake. We navigated between Munker and Long Island (most definitely not NY) carefully as the sun popped out and the cool wind started. Another smaller slush patch was just enough for some extra scraping after we cleared the islands. As exhaustion and the cooler weather just started catching up with us, and we were starting to wonder about our navigating, we spied what appeared to be orange markers. More thorough looking, we thought we were seeing 4, and headed across the bay. As we got closer, we saw the trails, snowmobile tracks headed south. Our blistered heels were screaming with excitement. Although the going was faster and the speed better, the trails seemed to go on forever and were hard to keep on a line. We were encouraged enough to keep going more or less nonstop and were glad when we made the land crossing, knowing we were close. Another mile or so down (or so it felt) and we pulled into the cove that meant the end of our trek at EP #55! Never before did 4-6 hours in the car sound so good! ~Saganaga Lake