Saturday, October 13, 2018 Got up and it was cold and cloudy. Instead of starting a fire to thaw my boots I just stuck them in the lake for 10 minutes. even my gravity water bag partially froze overnight despite dang near sleeping with it. Packed and was on the water by 10 am. I noticed that the camp across the lake was empty now when I paddled past. I had heard the people splitting wood there earlier in the morning. Hit the frozen 95r portage to Towline lake and noticed that those people must be ahead of me because a lot of the ice was already broken up on the portage. This was very lucky for me as Towline had completely frozen over, but they had broken up a channel that was easy to paddle to the other side. The ice appeared to be a good 1/4 to 3/8" thick to so not just skim ice. Onto 189r to Kawasachong lake. This portage got the blood pumping but was windy as I was now in the burn again and parts were on top more exposed to the increased winds from the south. Unfortunately, the channel they had broken for me was iced up again and it was tough going. I had to slam my paddle down to break the ice and a hard heave would break maybe a foot of ice and move me forward that much. It took what seemed an hour for me to move about 500 yards. I realized a light weight kevlar was not a good icebreaker. I had a long was to go to get out of the bay and to open water and I was tired already. I was pretty close to the inside point of land on my left and so decided to head for that maybe 50 yards away. Bushwacking to the main body would be quicker and easier than ice breaking my way out. I made to land, grabbed a pack and headed across land towards the main body. It was a great idea and In a pretty easy 5-10 minute walk though the burn landscape I was on the shore of open water of the lake. So I went back for load #2 and carried that over. Had a drink and a few bites of trail mix and noticed a stormy looking front coming from the south right at me. I quick hopping in the boat and paddled south towards the river. It was a brief sleet shower but the winds didn't pick up much more and the next thing I knew I was heading into the river channel and on my way to Square Lake. Humped my stuff up the big beaver dam around the corner and I was in the nice, mostly calm river valley heading south. Made my right turn and was at my last portage of the trip, a 20r to the shores of Square lake. The bay on Square the portage was in was also frozen over but luckily it was out of the wind and the broken channel the guys in front of me had made had not refroze. A quick paddle around the corner on Square and I was back in the river. This section is lined with hundreds of Tamarack trees all changed to there golden fall colors and I stopped to take some pictures and admire them. A short paddle later and the river got wider and opened up to a pretty calm Kawishiwi lake. I enjoyed Kawishiwi lake and took my time paddling to the EP. It was 2:35 pm when I landed to end my journey. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. The End