Thursday, July 25, 2024 Lovely cool morning. Our loud neighbors from last night have moved on. Potato pancakes with sausage crumbles for breakfast- delicious. saw 2 merlins dive bombing a bald eagle this morning. Sunny and not too windy so we set up the solar shower again and headed out to check out the PMA.

The channel into Snatch is just a cool lily filled winding path through the floating bog. Snatch has a tiny island at one end, with a single pine tree on it. Then headed over to the trail into Reflection Lake- had to wade a small creek and lift over a beaver dam, but really easy access. Reflection was beautiful, tall rock faces and glacial erratics in the southern end near the creek. It is slowly filling in and one day will be a beaver meadow. Saw what could have been a winding path through the bog that might have led to Sedative, but it was pretty narrow for the Quetico so we ate lunch, collected some wood, and headed home.

Sat in the breezy shade drinking coffee, watching all the groups moving around the lake- some headed towards Snowbank, some looking for camps. The lake is filling up, although the really crappy site next door is last to be claimed. Got super windy this afternoon- lots of whitecaps on the water.

The last photo is of 2 kinds of wilderness woodcraft.....one is more desirable than the other LOL

~Ima Lake, Snatch Lake, Reflection Lake