Thursday, July 31, 2025 Got pretty chilly last night. We got up and had a hearty breakfast of potato pancakes and coffee, then went for a daytrip into Sundial PMA. By this point in our trip we should have been in the PMA for 2 nights already, so a little bittersweet. I don't regret our decision, but I was looking forward to it.

Portaged into Mudhole- the water level in Mudhole was fairly high. It's actually a very pretty little lake. Then into Thunder, where we looked at the campsite on the west shore. It's pretty nice. Not sure you could fit a large group there unless you had hammocks, but it's real scenic. Then we were off to Beartrap Lake. We found the portage into Beartrap River easily. It clearly gets way more traffic than any PMA portage I've been on before Also, it's definitely had some recent love and attention. We followed it to the river, but didn't portage the canoe. Jesse took a bad step and tweaked his back, but it's not as bad as it was a few days ago. On our way back we looked at the campsite by the portage into Mudhole...just from the water it looked like it didn't get much use. Grass growing out of the firegrate and no good landing. Same with the site on Thunder near the portage back into Mudhole....looks rarely used.

We were back in camp by mid-afternoon and had a lunch of meat sticks and crackers and one of our pouches of pickles along with some "iced" coffee. I cleaned up the pile of rotting wood and green sticks that had been piled near the firegrate. If Jesse feels okay in the morning, we'll head over to Moosecamp.

~Gull Lake, Mudhole Lake, Thunder Lake, Beartrap Lake