Boundary Waters, Trip Reports, BWCA, Stories

There and Back Again
by mhclon

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/24/2007
Entry & Exit Point: Crab Lake and Cummings from Burntside Lake (EP 4)
Number of Days: 7
Group Size: 6
Day 2 of 7
Monday, June 25, 2007 The portage into Crab kicked our a$$=$ so we had a hard time waking up. Got up at about 9 and decided to do a little fishing. Now Gus the dog doesn't normally go after lures, but when my wife pulled up a stick he dicided to try it out! We spent the next (what semmed like an hour) struggling with Gus to get the hook out of his tongue. It took two people to hold his body and three to hold his jaw open and grab the TREBLE hook with a pliers to rip it out of his tongue. I know that there have been more traumatic experiences in peoples lives, but at the time it was happening, everybody was shaking and the people holding the jaw had numerous puncture wounds. Everybody was OK, but we decided to stay another night on Crab. Had pesto pasta with bagged chicken and pine nuts. Cocktails and diapers all around.