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Going with the flow
by dogwoodgirl

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 07/26/2025
Entry & Exit Point: Mudro Lake (EP 23)
Number of Days: 16
Group Size: 2
Day 2 of 16
Sunday, July 27, 2025 Up at 5, ate our leftovers from last night's dinner along with really good coffee that my son had brought along and were on our way. We were on the water before 7am. Pickett Creek was flowing well. Just before the portage out of Mudro, a thunderstorm hit. Torrential rain, the portage turned into a river while we were on it. The 115r portage heading towards Fourtown felt long and slippery in the rain, but it was really beautiful, and not particularly difficult.

We had checked the weather that morning and saw that severe storms were possible that afternoon, so took the first site on the peninsula. It was large and open with no big trees leaning towards the tent pad and more raspberries than you could eat in a week! Got camp set up and went swimming. Had an early dinner...skies threatening but most of it sliding past us. High winds overnight and thunder, but no rain where we were.

Some poison ivy on the longer portage from Mudro towards Fourtown

~Mudro Lake, Fourtown Lake