For breakfast today we rehydrated freeze dried baby yogurt. We crushed the yogurt before we left and packed it in ziplock bags with dehydrated fruit and granola. Today we did a day trip from Kelso. We brought our smaller food bag containing snacks for lunch along with one portage bag.
We canoed through the Kelso River and portaged to Sawbill. We swam from a campsite on Sawbill. We ate lunch at the campsite. We initially planned on portaging to Smoke Lake which is further east. We were pretty sure we found the portage. Linda headed down the portage. This one is 100 rods. The other three portages – between Sawbill, Alton and Kelso were all much shorter, between 10-30 rods.
Linda didn’t make it all the way to Smoke and turned back. Annabelle and I were waiting in the canoe for her to assess the situation. We looked at the time and decided against Smoke because we were concerned about how much daylight we had left. We went back to Kelso through the river portage.
For dinner we had rice and beans with salmon. We also had a backpackers pantry meal of jerk chicken, rice and beans. Annabelle and I pumped water while Linda cooked and cleaned the dishes. Of all the backpacking chores, Linda’s least favorite is pumping water. So AB and I always did that before and after dinner.