Tuesday, June 17, 2025 MARK: After last nights miserable thunderstorm that lasted over 4 hours. We woke up to a very wet camp. Fire was hard to keep going so we had oatmeal and peanut butter/honey wraps with coffee and tea. We left camp at 8:30 am packed up and headed back toward the Basswood River. We had a kind of easy travel day going from the pictographs to just below Upper Basswood Falls. We set up camp around 2pm. Lily and I went fishing for about a hour and a half. It was windy, however Lily caught 2 small mouth bass and a big pike. Montana cleaned then and we had dried beef and brown gravy with fresh fish for dinner. It is now nearing 8pm. I just did dishes and set up our tent. Montana and Lily are out fishing now. The water looks like a mirror. Lily and Montana returned to camp. Lily caught 2 pike, a walleye, and a nice small mouth. A bald eagle has been sitting in a tree across the water from camp for over an hour. The eagle is in Canada and we are in the USA with a beautiful view of the Basswood River.

LILY: We didn't get wet from last nights storm which was good! Sleep decent. Dad scared the crap out of me because he woke up a readjusted and I thought it was an animal outside of the tent. He said that I did the same to him. I had tea, pb+honey wrap, and oatmeal for breakfast. Wasn't my favorite. It took like 2 hours to pack up camp and leave. We left around 8:30am and slowly headed back toward Fall Lake. Had 3 decent portages today. They weren't to bad. We have our camp today set up across from our last portage of the day which is right beside a waterfall and like 10 minutes from our next portage in the morning which is the "1 miler" from hell. Once we got some stuff done at camp me and Dad headed out to fish near camp. I caught 2 small mouth and a pike. After I caught the first 2 i strung them to keep for dinner. A big pike kept coming up and eating on them and trying to pull them down. It was crazy watching pike attack them. We had the fish and dried beef and gravy for dinner. The fish was good, the beef and gravy...not so much. Super salty. After dinner me and Montana went back out and fished some more. A pike snapped my line on the second cast. :(

MONTANA: At a slower pace on the way out. More enjoyable. The only one who has but any thing on the table it the youngest and a women. I am not telling that story when I get home. After four days I am ready to STAY!