Day 2 – September 24 – Journey from Horseshoe Lake to Winchell Lake
We got up and our group prepared a fantastic breakfast eggs and bacon in the wilderness, it taste better. We left the camp site at about 9:30 am and started our journey west through the Horseshoe lake, a portage of 98 rd with elevation change to get to Gaskin Lake. Going west, we started to fill the impact of the win and how hard it made to paddle.
The portages started to get a bit more difficult as we normally have to do two trips to get everything back to the canoes. We did to portages one 98 rd and the second one 52 rd ( 150 rd = 2400 ft). On the last two days my Fitbit recorded 12000+ step, some of that was probably from the paddling.
Unloading and loading the canoes was a very hard task but we all learned quickly.
Arriving at the Winchell lake showed us the challenge of the win in our face, advancing the canoe under these conditions is hard, period.
We arrived to our target camping site at around 3:00 pm, had lunch and started our routine of setting tents, locating the trees to be used to hand the foot away from bears and searching for fire wood.
Paul and I when out fishing, not much catching but I was able to get small Bass that we cooked on the fire at dinner time. It was just enough for most of us to have a taste. This is a picture of Paul and I fishing.
The sunset was amazing and that night the sky was full of starts and Tim gave us a class on astronomic 101
The previous night, I slept in the hammock, today was too call to be outside the tent.
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