Day 20, Aug. 29th
Today
we left the best camp site we have had yet for the worst time our ECOEE crew
has experienced yet. Everyone was looking forward to running rapids for the
first time. Instead we got stuck a bridge, a ripple, and portaging 3 times. The
first one was a lesson of how organization can make or break your porting
times. The second was meh with little to no improvements. Honestly we probably
did worst than the first one. Definitely began putting a damper on the whole
rapid to portaging ratio. Creepy up to our next port we came up to what Jeff
would refer as a ripple but what Tyler and I would say a mood killer beached
our boat on a stray rock, I finally get why the Titanic went down. Those things
are impossible to see and as the two cockiest members in the lead boat watching
everyone learning from your mistake is not something that puts you in a on top
of the word mood, if you know what I am saying. The third was just redundancy
at its finest as Cassi and Kyle had continuously point out. With an unworkable
hill to the right side and a drop off that spelled certain injury if anyone
would have had an unfortunate spill, to the left. The crew pushed through it in
a rather untimely manner but when it comes down to it we worked as a team
helping and trading gear with each other and finally got the knockout blow in
the tenth. After what felt going the distance with Apollo Cree we found our
next camp site at the top of a mosquito ridden hill. Thank god for Norris' 99%
deet or I really would have been done for. Can't let the cal zone Liz, Shayla
and myself made for dinner that night slip through the cracks. Like I said
before teamwork is the key to back country portaging trips.
_Dustin S. Granat "Inspire while being Inspired"
_Dustin S. Granat "Inspire while being Inspired"
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