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When you've carried a
canoe for a half-mile, it feels like it weighs a ton and has a mind of
it's own on where it wants to go. While the last half of
"Oh" was a nice trail, the first half was a killer. |
Day 2 - This Man
Lake
Slept in an extra 30 minutes, but ate breakfast, broke camp and
made it on the water at 8am. Fifteen minutes later, we reached our portage
and it turned out to be an easy one. However, the next portage we came to
wasn't easy at all. At the end of the day, our crew named it
"OH". It was 136 rods long (16.5 feet per rod), very steep and
exceptionally hard. The next portage was also long, but didn't have quite
as much elevation, so we later named it "SHE". Our maps showed
the next portage to only be 60 rods long, half as long as the others, so
we thought it would be a lot easier. Wrong! Of all those done this day, it
was the worst and got named "IT" (You figure it out, just say
them together). The elevation was incredible, footing terrible and it
simply wore us all out. This was the portage Mark L. blew out his left
knee and broke his boots, thereby guaranteeing himself a challenging trip.
Just after that portage, we stopped for lunch on an island to recuperate
and then pushed on again. When we stopped at 4pm to set up camp, our total
distance was 22.1 miles. We quickly set up camp and ate, then had a
terrible time hanging the bear bags. We slept on rock again, but at least
we had wild blueberries growing all around to snack on. Everyone was in
bed by 8:30pm and asleep within minutes. |
