Eating adventure in the wilderness of Quetico( Part two ).

This adventure continues almost like the first day played out, except for the rain. The next 3 days was overcast and raining half the time. during the day we were ok, wet but warm and doing fine. On the fourth night we encountered heavy rain, thunder and lighting. We had to spend most of the time in tents and eat dried foods like beef jerky, gorp and chocolate. No fire meant no frying fish or making those awful freeze-dried meals. That last night of rain was the worst. Our tents were flooded with streams of rain water flowing through them. Finally the storm passed and the morning came, greeting us with a worm sunrise. Everyone was soaked wet along with all the supplies. We agreed that this day would be spent hanging out our wet clothes and sleeping bags to dry. while waiting for dry clothes, some went fishing and some fixed up the camp site. Having no luck fishing we had to settle for freeze dried stew, yuck.

After our clothes dried we packed the canoes and did a night paddle. We needed to get to our next campsite soon because the rain had put us behind schedule. More beautiful sites, and at night under the light of the biggest moon and the Milky Way. We made it to the campsite with no problems. Along the way our guide was collecting edible mushrooms and roots to cook a stew, we were low an food and no luck fishing. I thought this concoction smelled bad. The taste was even worse and not cooked all the way. The roots were chewy and the mushrooms were slimy. It was grainy like sand and tasted like dirt. Everyone else seemed to like it fine, guess I’m just a picky eater. Sadly we were making our way back to the lodge and going to heading home soon. This trip, although the food was not great, I went back three years consecutively, and made two more trips after High School with friends. I will never forget those canoe trips.