Up and out, early wind was out of the west, first time all week, it had been out of the south or calm all week. When your going from Smoke to Sawbill stay on the nice planks at the Smoke end of the portage. If you step off even on dry looking grass in a very low water year you will sink very quickly into smelly, muck mud, moose bog. I know this because I watch a fellow traveler do that very thing right in front of me. Back to Sawbill landing no harm done. finished the last shot of Sambovca in the parking lot. Bought a cup of coffee from the store and took a slow easy drive back to Ely and the shower at VNO enjoying the fall colors, thinking about the next time I get to visit my old friend.