This year, our annual BWCA trip took us from Sawbill to Wine Lake by way of the Kelso River. We hiked our longest ever portage of 460 rods (about 1.5 miles) but it was worthwhile as we found complete seclusion on an island camp site on Wine lake. The weather was temperamental. An hour or two of sunshine seemed to be followed by 15 minutes of rain drops. Often the rain was done before our cribbage game, played in the protection of the tent. Sometimes, the rain and sunshine were simultaneous. I have never experienced as little wind as on our second day. The canoe stayed wherever we stopped even in the middle of the lake. This made for some great fishing, and I managed to catch my first lake trout which we fried up for lunch. Scott and Nancy kept up the gourmet camp cuisine tradition. Fire roasted pizza in the middle of the woods is unbelievably good. Another great escape from the real world if only for a few days. Click on the picture to link to our picture gallery.
