We got up early and got the kids going with a light breakfast and a strong pot of coffee for the adults we were on the water by 7:45, only 15 min behind schedule, which for this trip was quite a success to say the least. We beat the wind in Friday so the paddle was uneventful other than my son finding a hitchhiking Crawfish in the boat. We hit the first portage pretty close to our scheduled time and powered through. Our boat was set on 1 trip portages but my buddy had resorted to 2 trippers at this point as there was not a lot of help from his boys. The next one to speak of was short but a very steep up and over. Then we arrived at the the long one 1 mile and I can only assume it was from the storm several nights earlier the portage had several trees down across it. What's better than portaging a mile? Having obstacles on it... The highlight was the one about 2/3rds way through that was about chest height so cant go under and cant go over with the canoe. After navigating the tree we finally arrived in Gun Lake. All the campsites minus one (which looked terrible) were occupied. It was still early in the day so we decided to keep going over to Fairy lake which had 1 of the 2 sites occupied. A short paddle across and another hop skip and a jump short portage into Boot lake we we found a fairly nice 3 star site facing the west. Great little swimming spot on the bottom of the rock. Nothing great for tent sites to speak of but we managed to set up 2. Someone had stayed and had some time on their hands as they had created a table out of woven sticks up by the kitchen area.