Keep in mind if/when the story comes out in its entirety, it will make your stomachs turn. The amount of rage required to “snap” and use a knife or to do it with your bare hands at that level of relationship is ‘almost’ incomprehensible. Premeditated? Well that’s another horrible rabbit hole.

They ...

I'm sure you've seen the camera traps placed by the NPS to monitor trail activity. Their are also audio recorders placed in certain locations to record bird calls, nature sounds etc. the top has a wood cover that extends out to protect the exposed Microphone with its little foam windscreen.

I just ...

I noticed you note a 1 night limit at Washington Creek, but the Greenstone says 3 (in case you don't get a camper cabin).
Malone Bay has nature's jacuzzi! Ask me when the time gets closer...
It does occur to me that you could also do the Malone to Greenstone leg as a day trip out of Malone at ...

Rangers would have hiked in out of Malone bay i suspect.

Good point. That's 11 miles as well.

Although I ask... Would there be a pair of Rangers already at Malone?


Possibly, when I was in Malone in May they had someone out there getting things started up. I assume they were getting the ...

Rangers would have hiked in out of Malone bay i suspect.

I sincerely wish I had the focus to keep such detailed notes of my days on the island! Phenomenal trip report, sounds like you had a pretty good Moosewatch hike. Sadly, the phone loss is a rough spot

The 5g at the terminal covers well out in to the lake.

Party time!

Don't look like the Ranger we caught docking last year!

Edit: I checked and it was 4/24 when I caught the Ranger III on the Mott island camera last season.

I'll check the Southside of the island with a tower scanning app when I'm there & see if anything is making it

And it's on-time!

I was worried if they still had someone with an Adobe Cloud license to even edit last years LoL

Nope, no need to rush that food storage announcement... absolutely acceptable

Maybe we can get some $2-300k web cams for the island and say they're for "border security".

Another great snag by one of the parks webcams!

I'm loosing a couple paddlers on this trip for various reasons (medical / financial). We were all a mixed bag of friends/strangers on a 2week slow paced fishing / camping / paddling trip but as usual life always seems to catch up with a couple of people who want to go every season.

If anyone is ...