We launch on Burntside Lake at 9:00 am. An hour later we arrive at the portage. It takes us close to two and a half hours to double portage. I carry a light pack with the canoe. Brenda carries the food pack and fishing poles and then we each carry another pack on the two trips as we leap-frog the portage. The water levels in the middle of the portage have changed because of beaver activity. We reload the canoe and float across it. We get to campsite 310 at around 12:45. We have lunch and talk it over. Do we want to push on for Silica Lake today or wait? I know that if we wait, I won’t want to move tomorrow, so do we spend 2 nights here? Since we where not in a hurry, we decided to wait. Brenda catches her biggest smallmouth bass of the trip that night.