Friday, July 15, 2022 Basswood - Newton - Fall Levi made pancakes for breakfast this morning. Colman caught a snake in camp. Joel and Levi wanted to hold the snake, and it ended biting Joel. It was pretty funny. After breakfast we break camp, and paddle toward Pipestone Falls. The wind that challanged us yesterday, is not an issue today. We paddle in calm weather and make great time to Newton, then to Fall. I am always amazed when we get to more poular areas, especially after we have been out and about for a few days. The portage into Newton was like a super highway. We see more people and canoes at this portage, than we have seen in a few days. One group was portaging a cooler with wheels. I'm pretty sure we saw about 20 people as we waited our turn to use the portage. We single portaged this one since we are travelling pretty light by this time in our trip. This portage is flat, and reminds me of a gravel road. We felt like we knew what we were doing, getting our group of 9 across the portage in 1 trip. We quickly paddled through Newton, and across another easy portage to Fall. We camped on the site on Mile Island directly across from the portage. This site has a very cool tree with a large exposed root growing across the large rock in the site. The boys decided to set up their tent on the large rock, next to the water. Travel seemed pretty easy today so we set up camp, soaked up some sun, then decided to do some fishing. Christopher hooked into a very large northern pike near the grass beds near camp. The boys and I decided to portage to the bottom of Newton Falls to try fishing from shore there. I enjoyed a cigar, and just enjoyed the rest of our last full day in the BWCA. After returning to camp, we ate a large dinner, the boys played cards in the tent, then fell asleep.