Pipestone Bay - Back Bay - Good Lake - Indiana Lake - Wind Bay - Wind Lake
11 Miles* - 5 Portages
It was going to be another long day of paddling, with only two or three portages and a lot of open water canoeing. Mr. Hock saw the opportunity for a "detour", which would lessen our distance on Basswood Lake, which would be more crowded and allowed motorboats, and give us some more portages. It turned out that the "detour" was actually the route that was in the leader's guide we had gotten the route from, but most of us welcomed the chance for some time away from the sun. We made it through that, despite one ugly beaver dammed inlet which required a lot of getting out of the canoe and pushing, finally making it onto an inlet with a whole ton of plants (no idea what) and some serpentine paths through them. This turned into a bit of light-hearted canoe racing, which had the interesting strategy of trying to force the other canoe into the reeds to avoid a collision, but the reeds would significantly slow the canoe. We managed to do one of the two portages that began our trip, so we camped incredibly close to the base.
