Temperance River / Frost River / Kelso River
by Hamstirly
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
06/08/2025
Entry & Exit Point:
Sawbill Lake (EP 38)
Number of Days:
6
Group Size:
7
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Part 7 of 7
Day 6 - Kelso to Sawbill (and Home)
We woke up in the morning to cook all the leftover breakfast food: the last of the biscuits, some homemade country gravy, black coffee, and the rest of the oatmeal. Before we left though, we found a beautiful pink lady slipper in bloom by where we stashed the food for the night.
A beautiful lady slipper
After packing up for the last time, we headed south down the Kelso river toward Sawbill and passed a gaggle of kids and their parents in aluminum canoes. I shudder to think about carrying those for 480 rods. We walked the easy 13 rods to Sawbill and canoed the last two miles home, in by noon. We returned the canoes, gathered our stuff, and took one last group photo, one week more weathered.
One week older
~Kelso Lake, Sawbill Lake
We woke up in the morning to cook all the leftover breakfast food: the last of the biscuits, some homemade country gravy, black coffee, and the rest of the oatmeal. Before we left though, we found a beautiful pink lady slipper in bloom by where we stashed the food for the night.
After packing up for the last time, we headed south down the Kelso river toward Sawbill and passed a gaggle of kids and their parents in aluminum canoes. I shudder to think about carrying those for 480 rods. We walked the easy 13 rods to Sawbill and canoed the last two miles home, in by noon. We returned the canoes, gathered our stuff, and took one last group photo, one week more weathered.
~Kelso Lake, Sawbill Lake
Lakes Traveled:
Kelso Lake,
Sawbill Lake,
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