Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

Frost River
by CanoeingWithKids

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 07/21/2024
Entry Point: Cross Bay Lake (EP 50)
Exit Point: Brant Lake (EP 52)  
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 4
Day 2 of 7
Monday, July 22, 2024 We woke up to off and on light rain. Just enough to make everything wet. We packed up the gear and made our way to Frost. On the portage to Unliad Lake, we could hear moose, but didn't see any. We saw a man on the shore next to Unload Lake who told us we could skip the portage to Frost if we wanted to cross a beaver dam instead. Kids thought that was a better idea, so we did. Turns out they enjoy crossing beaver dams. We made our way across Frost in the rain and set up on the first site on the west side of the lake. It was cloudy the rest of the day, but it stopped raining. There was a red squirrel that was not very scared of us. It kept trying to get in our food bags. My daughter named it Cashew after it ran off with a cashew she dropped while eating trail mix.