Tin Can Mike Lake - Rapids - Jack Fish Bay - Pipestone Bay
11 Miles* - 3 Portages
There were only a couple of very short (50 rods or less) portages today, so we were expecting to essentially just pull the packs out of the canoe and put them back in again. Little did we know that the two shortest of these portages (15 and 20 rods, 240 and 320 feet) would be some of the most annoying we'd face if not the hardest. We found this out on the first of these, when while passing over what looked like just another muddy stretch of terrain (The other portages were full of those) we sank into the mud, some of us up to our waists! Even at the end of that portage, it was easy to sink ankle deep or deeper when wearing a pack, so just taking the packs 20 feet over to the canoe became almost a daunting task! We all made it through that portage and another like it but slightly less mucky with all our possessions intact.
