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Saturday Aug 24, 2013 #
Hike (Backpacking Trip) 6:30:00 [1] 11.8 mi (33:03 / mi)
Day 4: Coves to Potato Patch
We got an early start today for the long return back in a longer day than we'd initially planned (due to campsites being full) It ended up being fine. We got one long last view of everything. It was a calm day, and there were lots of people out on the water in kayaks and on paddleboards. I want to try that one day. We stopped at Mosquito River for lunch again and watched the people come in, refilled our water, and wasted time before the last 1.5 hours of trekking to what we knew would be a mosquito-filled site.
Lake Superior water is awesome! It tastes really good and is super clean. Of course, we treated the whole time, but it was nice for it to at least look clean when you scoop it out.
We got to our site, set up camp quickly, and I convinced dad that we should take all our non-camp stuff (food, swimsuits, etc) down to the shore at the bottom of the cliff - the same one he'd struggled with the first day. It was a good move - only an 11 minute walk. We got to go for one last swim, eat dinner on the lake, and avoid the mosquitos. There were stable flies, but they weren't as bad as the mosquitos. When the sun started to go down, we hiked back up the hill to our site. I heard someone speaking "my language" at the campfire (talking about chemicals, blowing things up, you know...) so I jumped in to the conversation. Turns out that he works at Dow Corning too. Small world!
Started raining a bit in the middle of the night, but not too bad. The wind was fierce in the treetops and sounded much more dramatic than what we experienced on the ground.
We got an early start today for the long return back in a longer day than we'd initially planned (due to campsites being full) It ended up being fine. We got one long last view of everything. It was a calm day, and there were lots of people out on the water in kayaks and on paddleboards. I want to try that one day. We stopped at Mosquito River for lunch again and watched the people come in, refilled our water, and wasted time before the last 1.5 hours of trekking to what we knew would be a mosquito-filled site.
Lake Superior water is awesome! It tastes really good and is super clean. Of course, we treated the whole time, but it was nice for it to at least look clean when you scoop it out.
We got to our site, set up camp quickly, and I convinced dad that we should take all our non-camp stuff (food, swimsuits, etc) down to the shore at the bottom of the cliff - the same one he'd struggled with the first day. It was a good move - only an 11 minute walk. We got to go for one last swim, eat dinner on the lake, and avoid the mosquitos. There were stable flies, but they weren't as bad as the mosquitos. When the sun started to go down, we hiked back up the hill to our site. I heard someone speaking "my language" at the campfire (talking about chemicals, blowing things up, you know...) so I jumped in to the conversation. Turns out that he works at Dow Corning too. Small world!
Started raining a bit in the middle of the night, but not too bad. The wind was fierce in the treetops and sounded much more dramatic than what we experienced on the ground.