Wednesday, June 18, 2025 MARK: Left camp at 9:45. Had to do the portage fro Hell right off. It was miserable. Took a few hours to complete. Then paddled on Basswood Lake from noon till like 3pm. We got off course for pipestone bay and went straight into Jackfish Bay. We are camping at the best sit yet! No fishing today as everyone is to tired. Montana has been snoring off and on for the last 4 hours. It is now 8:30pm and I am going to bed. Final day tomorrow.

LILY: Weird thinking this is our was our last full day. We kinda got a late start this morning and left camp around 9:45am after packing up and having pancakes, bacon, and spam. We started the mile portage around 10 and finished around 12. I would walk a good ways then lay what I was carrying down and walk back to get something else. Dad started doing that too. There was alot of people on that portage this morning. Dad was making me nervous and had a canoe and bag trying to walk across this flooded rock/swamp area and a small rope attached to the canoe got wdeged under a rock and Dad was suck it a bad position and was super off balanced. I really thought that is was going to end badly and that he was going to get hurt. Luckily he didn't and i was able to throw down what I was carrying and help him. On that portage we made a super sweet older couple that talk to us and shared some stories from their past BWCA adventurers and from the 12 day trip that they were currently on. After that portage we past our first night camp and we began making our way toward our entry point and the motor limit sign to try and make it easier on ourselves in the morning. Well.... that didnt go as planned and we went a totally different way. I am nervous about getting to our exit point tomorrow and finding our way back on course. We got a small rain storm and hid in the tent from like 7-8 then fall asleep. Luckily we ate a MRE style spaghetti dinner around 4:30 when we set our camp up. The food was actually really good! This camp sit may be the prettiest we have seen/been too. It is so quite here. Even more than the other camp sits. I laid in the hammock and read a lot these evening. Dad has 1 bar of service here and I don't but we were able to text some people and even call Mom. It feels like we have been on this trip for weeks and 1 day at the same time! Ready for a good shower and missing my family!

MONTANA: Alright cool last night lil pike, smalleye, walleye dinner was great. Kicked long portage ass. Wish we had went deeper.