A view from the top...................Good golly Molly what a day! We portaged our butts off. Lots more walking than paddling. We got up before 7am, drove to the Round lake landing and piled in the packs. We each started with one pack but before we left home we ended up with a total of six packs. Me and Ellie would carry two and the guys would carry one pack and then a canoe. So it was three trips on each portage.
We portaged a total of seven portages the first day. None where too long but all where pretty elevated and very rocky. When I get a copy of Ellie's photo's I'll post one of a portage I know she took a picture of. We stopped part way through to have a little lunch and to drink two of the four beers we drug along.
Our good deed of the day was when a man from Roseville Minnesota and his two young sons where using the same portage as us, except heading in the opposite direction, and we helped them carry two of their packs and some other items as we went back to get our second load.We had originally intended on going into Peter lake the first day but only made it to Bat Lake. We setup camp on a big rock hill with a beautiful view. Pictured here is Ellie and Dave up in the camp.
Ellie made us pizza over the fire for supper and it was awesome.
They should have named Bat lake "Snake Lake" because we never saw one bat but did see several snakes. Each time Makita or Ellie would see one they would scream. Good grief. Dave would scream too just to make fun of the "girls".
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