Border Challenge 2025
by CatchMe
Day 2 We woke up and changed into our wet clothes and paddled to the portage. We got out and did the portage into Bottle Lake with ease. We quickly crossed Bottle and Iron Lake and portaged into Crooked. We took a long break at Curtain falls to eat our wraps and some other snacks.
We paddled on Crooked for about two hours and took a bathroom break at Cadillac Narrows. After that we paddled for thirty minutes through Little Current and stopped to try to roll a giant boulder into the lake. We were unsuccessful. We looked at the pictographs at the end of the lake, and then arrived at Lower Basswood Falls. We called my mom, ate food, and threw some rocks in.
We paddled to Basswood Falls and I did the whole 1 mile portage without any breaks. Then we set sail, aiming for the end of Basswood Lake. Along our way we went through the English Channel and saw 4 otters. We set up camp close to the end of the lake and since there was daylight, we made a fire to cook some mashed potatoes. They were awful. The part that hurts the most is that we ate the knock off brand potatoes instead of the yummy name brand ones we had in our food pack. We went to bed that night happy with our progress. I would give our campsite 4 stars. We went a total of 40.5 miles that day.
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