Tuesday, July 29, 2025 It rained hard most of the night. Woke up at one point and touched the tent floor, which felt like a waterbed. Uh oh! I crawled out into the vestibule and pulled the floor protector out from under the tent, so all that water could soak into the ground instead of slowly seeping through the floor.

Woke up to heavy smoke and grey skies, and Jesse's back was feeling worse. We spent a couple hours drying gear and then packed up and moved to Gull, with me doing most of the lifting. That site just wasn't anywhere we wanted to spend several days, and if Jesse doesn't get better we aren't going far.

I'm glad we moved, our new site is gorgeous! Took the middle site along the N side of the lake. Much nicer tent pad, tall pines, a good home base for us to hang out and explore the surrounding area while Jesse heals. There's no way I'm heading into the PMA with him....he's having sciatica and some weakness in that leg, occasional stumbling and significant pain.

It's early afternoon and the smoke is still pretty bad. Just laying low and not exerting myself so I don't breathe it deep into my lungs. I found a bird's nest with birch bark woven into it along the latrine trail, and there are loads of really cool mushrooms.

Small amounts of poison ivy on the Gun end of the Gun to Gull portage.

~Gun Lake, Gull Lake