Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Last day. We had a 10am pickup at the Sucker end of the Splash portage. We got packed up and were bringing the last load across about 9:45 when the tow boat came in. We waded the gear out to the boat since it is shallow pretty far out. Got back to LaTourell's for showers and then drove in to Ely for an early lunch at Brittons and then drove down to Bloomington to do laundry at the hotel and walk over Mall of America for dinner. We probably need to find a better place for dinner in the future.

The trip went well enough. We achieved the goal of solitude, not seeing anyone while in any of the campsites. We also were able to stay at all the sites we had picked as our first choice, which was unusual. It seemed like the 3rd week of June was not too busy. The weather was a little warm, but rain didn't affect us much. It was probably a little harder trip than we would have liked, but I like going to a few different campsites and getting off the busier lakes, and Sagus and Jordan were neat little lakes that were worth the work to get there.

Splash to Sucker 23R .5 mile paddle to portage, .2 mile portaging