5 Men, 2 Canoes, 1 Kayak, and God's Beautiful Creation.

Started off at Clearwater Outfitters.

Entry Point: #23 Mudro lake
Destination: Horse Lake

Trip Leaders: Soon to be Dads - David Martinez and Ryan Glendenning

PARK: Round Lake
ENTRY: # 52 - Brant Lake

We put in at Round Lake with Brant Lake being our actual permitted entry point. We somehow went to the wrong portage despite the fact that we had already done the portage between Round and Brant twice on a previous trip, and ended up starting our loop backwards and maybe technically illegally. We made it all the way to Missing Link Lake before realizing the error, and decided to forge ahead since we already had a late start.

There was fairly heated debate about whether to leisurely fish our way through a fairly connected but roundabout path to Tuscarora Lake or to do the 400 something rod portage between Missing Link and Tuscarora. We did the portage and found a campsite right away.

We attempted to paddle our way through to Jerry Lake by way of a southern finger on Tuscarora, but the route was impassable. We ended up portaging to Crooked Lake through Owl Lake. Crooked lake was very congested and we ended up camping on Jerry Lake after wasting much time looking for routes and campsites.

We made our way to Gillis Lake where we relaxed, did some cliff diving, and some members did rock climbing. Gillis has an excellent island cliff for jumping.

We planned to stay another night, but other commitments combined with a nasty thunderstorm pushed us to paddle all the way out from Gillis. The best fishing of the trip was had in the first few minutes following the storm once we were already back to Round Lake. More

Our entry point was Poplar Lake. We had to compete with a lot of wind during this trip, but used our rain fly as a sail to fly across Winchell Lake. When we made it to Gaskin Lake, however, the wind was just too strong to paddle around looking for a campsite, so we gave up quickly and camped at Horseshoe Lake for a second time at the end of our loop.

We had a lot of haze while at Winchell Lake. We speculated that there could have been some distant fires, because it seemed to low and dark for just overcast skies. That's just a guess, though.

We had good luck fishing some of the smaller lakes south of Winchell. There are a few that are just a short portage away. More

We couldn't manage to find a 4th member for the trip and scheduling proved incredibly difficult. We ended up taking a shorter than usual 3 person trip with 1 canoe and 1 kayak. We decided this would be the year to try a base camp trip since hauling and portaging would be so much less efficient than usual.

We camped on Seagull lake for the entire trip, exploring it and the smaller lakes around it. It was a good trip, but I think we would all prefer to keep moving and see new things.

The most fun part was swimming around and shooting the "rapids" in the creek that connected Seagull to Alpine Lake. We had great fishing in this spot on a previous trip, but had no luck there this year. More