Day 5 – Journey from Long Island lake to Rib Lake

We slept well and nursed our pain from the previous day. The trip was enjoyable, the wind wasn’t in our face as the previous two days.

The biggest challenge was navigating trough the low level waters and avoiding the rocks. In fact, the canoe that had Tim and Sandy got stock on a big rock, waged in a way that they couldn’t go forward or backward. Paul and I started to help but the canoe did’t move, so in the middle of the lake, we got close to the rock for Paul to step on it. He was able to push Tim/Sandy canoe out the rock and I came back to get Paul, my fear was flipping our canoe when Paul step from the rock to our canoe. Everything when well and we change our canoe flag to “Coast Guard” 🙂

We arrived to the site and did our normal duty, selecting a place to hang the food overnight, setting the tents, collect wood and cook the food.

The night was very cold and the temperature went down to 29 F. Paul kept the fire going until 11:00 pm. I had a hard time getting warm inside my sleeping bag rates for 20 F. As our outfitter indicated to me, 20F rating doesn’t mean it will keep you warm, it will just keep you alive at that temperature 🤒

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