Week 2 was a trip on the Brule River in Wisconsin and it was an amazing run with a great group of kids, no major dangerous tips happened, a few fun ones but nothing serious. It was a very warm week that week and lost of sun. So there were many sunburned campers and guides a like.
Week 3 was the pilot run of a sailing trip on the Apostle Islands. Which was just a ridiculous amount of fun. A very relaxing and fun trip, the beauty of the sailing trip is that you end up doing a lot of work for a very short amount time, then there is a large amount of relaxing time. It was also very nice in that we had a group of all boys who had just gotten done with their senior year of high school and they were just a really inclusive and positive group of guys.
Week 4 was also a very fun week I got to guide a backpacking trip on the Superior Hiking Trail. We went from Caribou Lake just north of Lutsen, MN south to Temperence River State Park just south of Tofte, MN which ends up being a 24 mile hike in 4 nights. It is just an absolutly beautiful trip and I again had a wonderful group of kids, most of whom had been to our camp before. They were really supportive of each other in terms of the pack weights and really also very conserned about myself and my co-guide's well being as well. It was a very physically intensive week but it was just an amazing, amazing week.
So then this last week, week 5 was a fun bizare hard and frustrating week on the Brule river again. We started off with a little bit if rain as we left the trail head that was off and on through out the day. Then as we got closer to our campsite the rain picked up a bit and as we pulled in there was lightning and thunder. So we gathered as much wood as we could and proceaded to work on getting a fire started and we did in pouring rain. We had a fire and cooked food but we didn't get to bed until 2 am. Which is kind of how my sleep patterns went for the rest of the week. I also got to do a bit of canoe rescueing on the ledges as a canoe completely missed the chute that they were supposed to hit and got royaly stuck. So I had to run a canoe back up a sketchy portage trail to a place where I could launch and get back to them and get the canoe unstuck and working.
So it has a few good weeks, this next week I'm then headed off to the Apostle Islands again to do a Voyageur Canoe trip. And I'll leave you with a few pictures from the last couple of weeks.
