The day started out decently enough camping the night prior at FENSKE LAKE CAMPGROUND, a nice short drive to the EP. Had a quick breakfast, cup of Joe and filled up on water to head off to Mudro. Upon our arrival the parking lot was the fullest I have ever seen requiring us to park in the overflow lot (which I honestly didn't even know was up there). Luckily several large groups were coming out as we were putting in so what at first I was worried about crowding was quickly eased. This was my 6th trip to the BWCA and my wife and kids 2nd but we have plenty of other canoe experience and pack/prep the canoe for single portages. MY friends 2nd trip and his boys first ever of any kind so there were some growing pains to get the day started. We ended up launching about 2 hours behind schedule. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but we had a Mudro restricted permit and planned to head up through horse river to lower basswood falls on day one. After several more setbacks with the portages and disorganization, a little lack of motivation and some general crying we powered through. Thankfully the river was up from previous years and we only had to portage 3 times making it a 6 portage day total. The grass after the last portage though was more than the kids had bargained for. We had been talking to others on the way out and sounded like lower basswood was promising for a campsite, but when we got there several hours behind schedule around 7-7:30pm those sites were long gone, even the one at the top of the falls. Luckily the one across the lake on the point was open. Less than ideal for sure as there was no usable wood around but it would work for the night. So we set up camp hurriedly, made dinner and prepped for the night. We expected some rain for the night but little did we know what was coming....