Day 4, June 25, 2019

Another early morning.  Up at 06:15 with the usual routine of breakfast, break camp and pack the canoe.  It was a nice morning;  still, calm with the promise of a good day.

We launched the canoe at 08:20 and paddled down the lake to the south.  We must have been fully focussed on making progress because my notes have very little information for this day.  We stopped at Camp 20 for a quick nutrition break of granola and trail mix before heading off again.  The promise of the morning was soon broken as the wind and waves grew stronger and bigger as we paddled along.  We decided to pull into Camp 22 to wait for the weather to improve before continuing on with a goal of reaching Camp 24 for the night.  It started to rain lightly so we put on our raingear but when it became a question of a choice between being slightly wet from the rain or being hot and sweaty inside the raingear we chose to remove it as soon as the rain was occasional drops.  As we went on our way the wind and waves subsided which meant we could reconsider our options.  We decided to continue on to Camp 25 and to stay there for the night.  As we went along the weather settled down - no wind, cloudy with very light rain.  We reached Camp 25 around 15:00 with the weather improving.  We set up camp and I rigged a tarp over a rustic bench by the fire pit to provide some shelter for cooking and our equipment.

It was an evening that makes wilderness travel the joy that it is for me.

I waited and waited for a glorious sunset to follow the sinking sun but I was not to be lucky.  Sunset at this latitude is a very gradual affair with the sun moving along, dropping slowly behind the horizon.