Monday, October 14, 2024 We began our morning in Little Isabella River Campground as we drove up the day before and stayed the night here in preparation for our hike after the drive up from SE Wisconsin. We arrived at the trailhead and had our packs and dogs ready to move on the trail by 10am. As expected from our short time to research this trail, the “stem” of the trail was relatively straight, flat and easy hiking until we reached the branch where the loop began. We hiked clockwise, with the goal of reaching the Quadga Lake campsite for our first night. Besides cool temperatures and sporadic rain and freezing rain, the hike was relatively uneventful. A lot of mostly straight hiking with some sections of overgrown grass, which was still relatively easy to navigate. Quadga Lake was beautiful and we experienced a long enough break in the rain to set up camp and make dinner before the rain really started coming down around 6 and we ushered all the huskies and ourselves into the tent to stay dry.