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This has been a long time coming. I am sorry that I never got around to sharing my trip report with everyone and for disappearing off the forums for quite some time. I got a new job shortly after I got back from this trip and the commute and time the job has absorbed out of my life did not leave me much opportunity to stay in touch around the forums. While this trip report will not provide any information on current trail conditions, weather, and what the bug situation is like; I hope that it will excite those of you who have plans to go to the island in the coming months or make those of you who are unable to visit the island this year feel as though you are walking alongside of Shelly and I as I recap our story.

Presently, I have typed out every day from what was written in my journal with the exception of 9/21. Tomorrow I will finish the rest of my typing and begin uploading pictures to my photobucket account so that I can share them on here. There will be a total of 122 pictures posted in this report (I wish I had more, but of the 400 we took, most of pictures had Shelly and I squeezing together in them with the main focus not solely being placed on the beauty of the island. All the pictures I selected pretty much were ones that allowed you to see more of the island rather than us) and around 40 pages of single spaced Microsoft Word documentation. I'm sorry :? Did you guys expect anything less? :shock: We're talking about Rafiki here where each day of my previous reports has been the size of a typical persons whole report :D You didn't think because I haven't been around these parts for almost a year my extensive ways of going about writing my reports had changed did you? :wink:

With all said, I will begin posting my report on a day by day basis beginning this Monday at around 6pm. I would post it all at one time, but it takes a while to decide where you want to place pictures within your report and I still have to proofread the report which I do not want to do in one sitting. I hope this does not prove to be a big deal to anyone. Plus I doubt anyone wants to read all 40 pages of my report in one day. Let the countdown begin :wink:
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Rafiki,

Collectively, Isle Royale Nation eagerly awaits the tales of your adventures!

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I have been going through Rafiki withdrawls, hence me rereading your old report, so I too am anxiously awaiting this one.
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Preface

Every trip starts with a plan. Initially it beings with winter reaching it's end and the spring kicking into gear. Around this time flashes of Isle Royale frequent your mind more than they normally would and you know that it is time to check your work schedule to see if there is an ideal time for you to pay a visit to Grand Portage, Cooper Harbor, or Houghton...all towns where one would depart by sea or air to get to Isle Royale. Eventually, a phone call is made and about a week or so later you receive a letter in the mail confirming your departure and return dates to and from the island. It's for real now, unless some type of medical or family emergency comes into play, you will be going to Isle Royale in a few short months, weeks, or days. Now you begin to fixate on the island even more. In your free time and at dull points throughout the day, you begin formulating a rough itinerary of how you are going to spend your time while on the island. At first you decide on one plan, but then a better one comes to mind. Then the better one you thought of turned out not to be so great because it did not take into consideration certain concerns or time constraints that you had while creating it. It turns out, you were scheduled to be on the island for 8 days, but designed a plan that revolved around a 9 day trip. Well that won't work, you tell yourself. Actually, on this particular occasion the thought-to-be perfect plan would have been just as its name had suggested, but now your regretting that it does not include a certain place you wanted to visit. Ugh...back to square one! You go back to square one a couple of times, but soon find yourself stumbling on a plan that seems close to ideal in almost every way you thought possible. This you decide is your official itinerary for your trip and no more amount of thought could think up a better plan. This is the plan of all plans. Here's the kicker...while you feel like you are in control of your own destiny throughout the course of developing your high and mighty plan, at the end of the day, it is the island that calls all of the last shots and she doesn't necessarily always tend to believe that your fancy schmancy plan is the one that she wants to have play out.

My Fancy Schmancy Plan:

9/10 Voyageur II to Rock Harbor Hike to Daisy Farm

9/11 Day Hike Daisy Farm - Greenstone Loop/ Eat Lunch/ Head to Moskey Basin

9/12 Moskey Basin to Hatchet Lake

9/13 Hatchet Lake to Malone Bay

9/14 Malone Bay Rest Day (Try to bushwhack over to Wood Lake)

9/15 Malone Bay to Desor South

9/16 Desor South to Siskiwit Bay

9/17 Siskiwit Bay Rest Day (Try to bushwhack over to Hay Bay)

9/18 Siskiwit Bay to Feldtmann Lake

9/19 Feldtmann Lake to Windigo to Grace Island***

9/20 Grace Island to Beaver Island

9/21 Beaver Island to Windigo to Hugginnin Cove by foot

9/22 Hugginnin Cove to Windigo to Meet Voyageur II

*** Voyageur II would bring canoe to island in the morning at 10:30am from Grand Portage and leave it for us in the pavilion for pick-up once we got to Windigo from Feldtmann Lake later in the afternoon. We would depart for Grace Island shortly before sunset.
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I like how he bushwhacks on his days off! :shock:
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September 10th Monday

We slept in our car last night and did not get to Grand Portage until 9:30pm on the account of leaving Mall of America late in the afternoon. We had the plan of sleeping at the Grand Portage Marina campgrounds for $15 and setting up a tent. However, when we got there, the people at the Grand Portage Lodge (an establishment that owns the marina campgrounds and the casino along with the Grand Portage Trading Post/Spur Gas Station) did not know where to direct us. They were only aware of there being an RV lot. I asked them how much their rates were for the lodge. They told me $95 for a street view and $105 for a lake view. This was better the $140 (supposedly really $160, but they were going to give us a measly $20 off) that Best Western was asking for in Grand Marais. I told them we’d take the $95 street view room. They told me they only had lake view rooms left, but that all of them were smoking. I said, thank you, but that we’d pass. $100 was my limit and I definitely wasn’t going to go over it for a room that possibly could smell like cigarette butts. Shelly is also very particular on such matters, because her allergies flare up around animals and smoke saturated rooms. After we rejected the idea there, another employee came around and told me that the campgrounds were part of the RV park and that the marina offices were closed so we would have to pay in the morning, but would still be allowed to camp there if we wanted to.

We drove to the RV park and saw nothing but a dirt and gravel lot where other RVs were stationed. There did not appear to be an area that resembled a campground with tent pads. It was going on 10:15pm. It was dark as could be. It did not look like an ideal place to setup a tent. Shelly and I decided to check out a place called Rydens that we had heard about on the forums. It turned out to be about 5 or 6 miles north of the gas station and about a half mile from the Canadian border. It was closed, at least the check-in office to the motel. There were other people staying in a couple of the rooms, but there was not anyone present to take a reservation. We turned around and decided to sleep in our car at the Grand Portage Lodge/Casino.

It turned out to be a miserable sleep. We went to bed at around 11:15pm and at around 4am I could no long sleep. I kept trying to, but it was so cold out that night (48 degrees) that I would wake up every 15 minutes until I gave up trying to sleep anymore at 4:45am. Shelly was on the same boat and gave up trying to sleep at 5:15am. We decided to start the car up after brushing out teeth. We drove around until just before 6am. Shelly got a little nap for about a half hour in the warmth of the car as I drove aimlessly.

We ended up stopping at the Grand Portage Trading Post/Spur Gas Station so we could change our clothes, get water, and pick up some gloves since I left mine at home thinking it wouldn’t be that cold out. Gloves are important when handling hot mugs and pumping water when it is windy or chilly out. I did not want my hands to get cold while pumping water. We got one pair of gloves and two pairs of mittens for shelly since the mittens were thin and since there was only one pair of gloves left.

We left the trading post at around 6:40am and got to where the Voyager departs at around 6:45am. They ask that you check in by 6:45am, so we made it just in time. I notified Captain Mike that we were here, asked where Captain Don was so I could make a canoe reservation for the end of our trip, and raced back to the car to double check that we had everything as well as to cook our freeze dried breakfasts.

As we were waiting for our water to boil, Captain Don had arrived and approached us to find out the details on when we wanted the canoe, I offered to pay him once we spoke of the arrangements, but he said that I could just pay when I got back. He also told us that we were the only ones there were waiting on so that we should hurry up. He was very pleasant and nice. It was 7:10am when we talked. The warning horn on the Voyageur tooted at 7:20am. We were on the boat by 7:25am. They were not scheduled to leave until 7:30am, but I still felt bad about being the last ones to get on board, because if we had gotten on sooner, we could have left earlier. Note to self and to others, arrive early and you may just be lucky enough to leave early if there is no one that is being waited on.

Our ride on the Voyageur was an interesting one, both in good ways and bad ways. It started off not so well. The food we cooked for breakfast to eat on the boat did not taste good at all. One was a potato and egg dish. It was suppose to taste like hashbrowns and eggs, but it did not taste anything of the sort. I forget what the second one was suppose to be, but shelly disliked it even more that the first one. I didn’t care for either of them. Not only was the food not that great, but the ship was kind of rocky. Shelly got seasick in short time even though the waves were not that horrible. It was just that such a small boat could not take them as well as a bigger ship could. I too, surprisingly ended up getting a little seasick. It hit me about a half hour into the ride. I went to the back deck to get some fresh air, and before you know it, I vomited a mouthful of water loaded with breakfast chunks I had eaten moments ago. After I let that out, Shelly came to join me in the back when sleeping on the trip no longer was working for her. While she did not puke, she did not look like she was having too great of a time. I hung out in the back for another 15 minutes before I decided to go lay down. I would fall into a deep sleep for the next two hours until shell woke me up to tell me we were at Windigo at around 10am.

When we got there, I saw Ranger Luke. He waved at me and it seemed as though he remembered me from earlier in May when I went on my solo trip. Everyone got off the boat for a talk-in from Ranger Luck and those of us who were destined to get back on the boat headed to the Ranger Station to check-in while the others that were staying at Windigo went to go get their packs from the Voyageur. By the time we checked in and signed the visitor book, the Voyageur sounded its horn and it was time to get back on the ship. Unfortunately, we never saw Ranger Cindy. She supposedly left on Sunday, at least that’s what Ranger Luke informed us. Although, I did not think the Ranger III left on Sundays. In either case, we missed her.

So you might be asking, what were the good parts of the trip to the island since I said the trip there was “interesting in both good and bad ways”. For starters, with the exception of maybe four other people, a group of about 20 kids got off the boat at Windigo. They appeared to be students from some school on a field trip. The four other people that got off were probably their chaperones. They weren’t bad kids at all. Maybe a little noisy and excited; I was only happy to have them off because it cleared a lot of space on the boat. There was now old seven other people on with us. Two single men, a couple, and a group of three guys. After observing who was left on the boat, Shelly and I got a Snickers bar from the first mate (Shelly thought he was really funny, for what reasons, I forget) while we were passing Grace Island. I remember this because I wanted to know where Grace Island was so we knew how to get to it by canoe, something we planned to do at the end of our trip. Things got pretty exciting after that. Shelly said she thought that one of the single guys was a friend of ours that we had met on a previous trip that we took a couple of years back. If I made mention of his name here, I do not think he would approve of it. He prefers to be an anonymous being that frequents the island a couple of times a year to enjoy the peace and solitude that the surroundings provide him. Many of you know of him and some of you have even had the fortunate pleasure of meeting him just as we have. He is a very kind, warm, and gentle soul. In any case, so things do not become confusing with my story telling, we’ll refer to our anonymous character as George. When I asked Shelly whom she thought we knew, she told me she thought one of the people on the boat was George. I asked which person and she quickly assured me that she thought she had made a mistake. I still was curious to know which person on the boat looked similar enough to be confused with George and asked her to point him out to me. When I saw the person, even I questioned if it was George. The gentleman looked very similar to George, but something seemed different about him that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps, he was dressed differently that my memory was set on remembering or maybe my photographic memory of him had faded over the years from not seeing him. In either case, just to be certain, I asked the George look-a-like if he was George and sure enough it was him. WOW!!!



My sad excuse for a Snicker Bar...I guess they forgot to rotate their inventory and I got one from last year...Shelly's looked much better:



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George remembered me and this led to a conversation about a great deal things. Being that I am uncertain of what I have written about in past trip reports and whether or not George was mentioned in any of those trip reports, I will refrain from sharing our discussions so that I do not expose his identity. I will say that we did find out that George was staying at Malone Bay for a period of time that would allow us to intersect with each other later on in our trip. Besides having this to look forward to in the middle of our hiking itinerary, George offered to take any food, fuel, and unneeded items that we had so that our packs would be that much lighter until we got to Malone Bay. If you know anything about backpacking, you’ll realize how appreciative we were of George’s willingness to extend such a favor to us. Using him as a resupply point allowed us to only have to carry our first four days of food instead of all twelve days of food. It allowed us to get rid of some of the fuel we were not going to need. It allowed us to avoid having to carry the dry bags that we were going to be using on the last four days of our trip canoeing. Essentially it allowed us to part with almost half of the weight that was in our bags. Therefore, instead of carrying 30Lb backpacks, we were down to just under 20Lbs each. Talk about what a relief. If you’re reading this George, thank you once again for your kindness.

Continuing on with our sea travels, we got to McCargoe Cove at 12:50pm to drop off the group of three guys. I got to talk to one of them. His last name was Reese. He was from St. Louis. We had a brief discussion about our career paths and what had brought him to the island for the first time. We got to Rock Harbor at 2:30pm and did not do a Belle Isle stop for anyone. On the note of Belle Isle, Ranger Carl who had always been posted on the North side of the island had retired last year according to what George had told us. We met Carl in 2011 at Lane Cove, which must have been his last year.

After we got off the boat, I was approached by a man named Mark (aka Inca Roads on the forums). He asked if my name was Tim and I told him it was. He said, “Its me Mark.” I looking puzzled, he continued, “Mark from the Isle Royale Forums.” I replied, “I know a lot of Mark’s on the forums, which one are you?” He told me he was the one who told me he was going to be arriving to the island the same day as him and how he did the Scoville Point hike just as planned before coming to meet me. Then, it hit me that Mark was Inca Roads. I was not expecting to still see him around at this time. I thought while he was going to try to cross paths with me, things would not work out because he would not want to wait until I quite possibly did not arrive until 3pm, while the Isle Queen IV would have dropped him off around 11:30am. Well, as it turned out, my assumptions were incorrect and I was embarrassed beyond belief for being so clueless as to whom he was. Sorry Inca I hope I am forgiven ;)

Mark told me that another person named Ulmer on the forums (aka John) was not going to be at Three Mile tonight due to his wife’s sister passing unexpectedly. He got off just before the boat departed. I was going to introduce myself as I passed through Three Mile this afternoon on my way to Daisy, but obviously that was not going to happen now. I paused our conversation and double-checked that Captain Mike was aware of our canoe reservation and he reconfirmed that everything was good to go. Before turning back to Mark, I apologized again to Captain Mike for keeping him waiting for us at the dock at 7:25am today. He seemed unbothered by it, which made me feel less guilty.

I turned back to Mark. We talked a little bit about our itineraries and previous trips, before wishing each other a fun and safe trip. From there, Shelly and I headed to the Ranger Station underpass and unloaded what we did not need into a dry bag that we were going to use for our canoe trip and passed it along to George before departing on our way at 4:15pm. In the process of packing the dry bag, we met a pesky squirrel that was fearless and used to the presence of people. He tried taking our food and scaling the Ranger Station wall and bench to see what he could get. I had to chase him away several times. One time he even went through Shelly’s legs.

We got to Three Mile at 5:45pm via the Tobin Trail. With the sun starting to set at 7:00pm and being almost completely down at 7:30pm from what we learned from our drive to Grand Portage last night, we decided not to risk going to Daisy Farm. Plus we heard it was packed over at Daisy Farm from campers that were presently at Three Mile. On top of that, at our pace, we would not arrive to Daisy Farm until 7:45pm should we have decided to attempt it.

We initially grabbed shelter #12 because it was the first and only one we saw open, but moved onto shelter #5 instead because it was closer to the water. Shelter #4 was taken. We were not sure about Shelters 1, 2, 3, but did notice half of the tent sites having people occupying them, which was odd due to shelters being available. There was also a very large group of people that we took notice of at this time, probably about eight of them on the dock. They would eventually clear out and head back to the group sites. Not picking shelter #12 was a good idea, because the group sites are located a short distance behind this particular shelter and we wouldn’t care to hear the noise of traffic that might have been made throughout the night with people using the pit toilet. After we had our shelter set up, dinner finished, and teeth brushed; we headed off to bed around 9:45pm. We set our alarm for 5:15am, but somehow ended up waking up at 5:50am due to not hearing the alarm.
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You get me soooo sucked in, then quit! Yep, this is gonna be torture...

As far as the seasickness goes...I have been born and raised on the water, 90% of the time I slept on the rocking boat and never once been seasick. That being said, I ALWAYS take a (non drowsy) Dramamine before heading out to the island no matter which vessel I am on. Better safe than sorry.
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NancyT wrote:As far as the seasickness goes...I have been born and raised on the water, 90% of the time I slept on the rocking boat and never once been seasick. That being said, I ALWAYS take a (non drowsy) Dramamine before heading out to the island no matter which vessel I am on. Better safe than sorry.
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September 11th Tuesday

Today we got up at 5:50am. The night was not as cold as we thought it would be. When I woke up the temperature on the alarm clock said 67 degrees in our tent that was enclosed with a fly. We left Three Mile at 7:15am after each having a granola bar. We got to Daisy farm at 9:15am. Along the way we bumped into a couple that said the shelters were all filled at Daisy Farm last night and that the campgrounds were really hopping. The girl said she heard a camper excitedly scream out how got the last shelter at 6pm before they started making their dinner.

We passed by a group of four people leaving one of the shelters at Daisy Farm as we made our way to the pavilion for a quick water break. Two of the gentlemen had the same Tiley Hat as I do and I made a joke out of how their hats looked pretty awesome. They told us that all of the shelters were taken last night before we went on to discuss a variety of other things.

Continuing on our way to the pavilion, another gentleman greeted us and offered to take our picture near the dock. He warned us not to get near him because he had been on the island for a week and wasn’t smelling too fresh as of lately. I told him it did not bother us and that we would probably be smelling like him in no time. He took our picture and we headed to the pavilion. While we sat and enjoyed some water, Shelly and I talked about how we were glad we were not going to be attempting the Daisy Loop as originally panned before heading to Moskey Basin. The initial plan was to hike from Rock Harbor to Daisy Farm and then on the following day do the loop and head over to Moskey Basin. However, since we never made it to Daisy Farm and instead stayed at Three Mile, we thought that hiking from Three Mile to Daisy Farm, doing the loop, and then hiking to Moskey Basin was too much for one day even if we were to drop our packs off at a shelter in Daisy Farm to do the loop hike.

Before we left for Moskey at 9:25am, we saw a couple leaving Daisy Farm headed towards Moskey. We began to wonder if things we jammed packed here at Daisy Farm last night as everyone had said, being that we only saw two different groups pass by us on the way to Daisy Farm from Three Mile, should we be led to assume that Moskey was going to be overcrowded. We certainly hoped not, but unless people decided to travel north onto the Greenstone Trail from Daisy Farm, we were beginning to have our doubts. Only time would tell.

On the way to Moskey, we bumped into an old friend. It was Leah and his son Jacob. We met Leah on our trip last year in 2011. He hiked with a guy named Jessie. He said this year he decided to bring his son and do the Feldtmann Loop from Windigo and make his way over to Rock Harbor. He also said that Jessie came a week before they left to the island, but that when he went to see if he passed through Windigo, the Ranger told him the he left early because he was feeling sick. I asked Leah if he kept in touch with anyone else and he said he wrote Dan (another individual we met on our last trip), that Dan replied, but after that they lost touch. After taking a quick picture together we wished each other a fun and safe trip before departing on our ways.

The next person we bumped into was a single man. He looked like he was in his 30’s and had a ton of gear on him. He shared how he had an aggravating night of sleep last night with how warm it was outside. He also went on to let us know how he was looking forward to getting to Rock Harbor so could get more food. I filled him in on the unfortunate news about the store already being closed for the season and he said he was going to have to figure out something if he wanted to stay on the island otherwise he was going to have to leave earlier than planned. I would had offered some of our food, but we had little to spare on the account of giving most of our food to George for safe keeping until we got to Malone Bay. Furthermore, by the sounds of it, even though I never asked, this particular hiker seemed like he had the intentions of staying on the island for quite a bit more time and any amount of food I could have offered him would not have been enough to satisfy his needs. I base this off how heavily weighed down he was with tons of gear. I imagined that he had about 60Lbs on him. Not so bad considering that I had 82Lbs on the first trip I ever took to Isle Royale. Man, as much I would hate to be young and stupid again, I think I would take the stupidity with the youth if I could have a decade of my life back. Oh how great it felt to a strapping young lad on the verge of entering into his twenties. Truth be told, I am not looking forward to my thirties which I recently entered into ;(

Just before reaching Moskey Basin, we bumped into the two people that passed by us at the pavilion at Daisy Farm. They were having a snack on some rocks. They reconfirmed what was already told to us several times; Daisy Farm was full last night. They said they were going to have lunch at Moskey Basin and move onto Lake Richie. After that, the plan was to go to East Chickenbone followed by Lane Cove. We warned them about East Chickenbone and suggested McCargoe Cove in place of it. They said they heard the same thing from someone else and were going to make an effort to avoid East Chickenbone now that they had been given the same warning by two different people. We talked for a short while longer about things we learned on our former trips and shared some information about the island before saying farewell to them and arriving at Moskey Basin around 11:45am.

When we walked into the campgrounds, we found Shelter #1 available. Shelly sat on a picnic table while I looked to see what else was open. I found Shelter #2 and #4 available too. I would have selected either one of those over #1, because #1 is not on the water. My intentions were to convince Shelly to select Shelter #2. However, I knew Shelly would be more apt to select Shelter #4. I wanted #2 because it is placed right in the open water without any trees or shrubs blocking the descent down to the water, which is 20ft in front of the shelter. The downside of not having any trees or shrubs in front of the shelter is that the sun scorches the front of the shelter making things very warm and toasty on the inside and very hot and sticky while standing outside the front of the shelter. As Shelly and I walked from Shelter #1 to inspect #2, we found that someone had snuck into the campgrounds shortly after us and that the person had claimed #2. #4 was now the easy choice, which in the end was probably for the best since I am imagining Shelly would have preferred it. As it would turn out, the campgrounds did fill in. I think with the exception of one of the individual tent sites not being taken, the group of eight people from Three Mile had taken refuge in the group campsites. I eventually got to speaking to the group while I way paying a visit to the dock as Shelly took a mid-day nap. It turns out, they actually had two groups with them on the island. One group, the one that we saw at Three Mile on the dock was their group. The other group stayed at Daisy Farm yesterday and went to Lake Richie today. The plan was for the one staying at Moskey tonight to go to West Chickenbone and for the ones staying at Lake Richie to go to East Chickenbone. I would say that the second group got the short end of the stick with not caring for East Chickenbone and loving Moskey Basin, but as we all know, any day on the island is a good day. I forgot to mention that we also met an older couple that was staying a shelter #3 when we first arrived. We had the intentions of going over to properly introduce ourselves, but never got around to it. We did exchange some hellos and brief conversation as we were looking for shelters, but that was as far as our conversations went.

Throughout the day, Shelly and I rinsed our clothes off and laid them out to dry. We also took a shower with our pocket shower. After Shelly took hers, I got the idea of warming up the cold shower water with some boiled water when it was my turn to take a shower. I used a pot of 16ozs of boiled water to help slightly warm up the shower bag. It did not make it warm enough to be a shower like at home, but it did help take some of the chill out of the water. After eating dinner, Shelly ended up crashing around 9:30pm and I went to sleep shortly after around 10pm. It was another warm night with the temperature being around 63 degrees. We awoke the next morning around 5:20am and started out of sleeping bags around 5:30am.



The only picture we took this day where the main focus was not on us. Ha Ha Ha. I promise future days have a ton more pictures. Be patient:



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Ohhh Timmy. This is too funny reading things from your experience! Love it so far. Sorry you got stuck with that old white Snickers.... especially seeing as that was the only thing we managed to eat that whole day. No wonder we were sick! :wink:
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I'm confused? What do you means that's the only thing we managed to eat all day? We had the nasty breakfast. We snacked a little before leaving Rock Harbor. And we cooked at Three Mile. I'm confused :|
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Rafiki wrote:I'm confused? What do you means that's the only thing we managed to eat all day? We had the nasty breakfast. We snacked a little before leaving Rock Harbor. And we cooked at Three Mile. I'm confused :|

LOL ! First of all, I personally did NOT eat that "breakfast" because it was so gross! The only thing we ate at Rock Harbor was a lemon stinger that I did not manage to keep down. Also, did we really cook at Three mile!? I totally don't remember that. I guess I'll believe you though seeing as you take such good notes! ;)

Long story short... we must eat something BEFORE hiking.
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HEY....where's our daily post??? You're slacking Tim!!! Being unemployed, I look forward to this...chop chop!!!
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