Day 1

Pillow to Paddle in 270 Minutes
Getting to Camp
Setting up Camp
Dinner and Overnight Storm

Day 2

The Morning After the Storm
The Big Portage
Getting to Camp
Home For Two Nights Rest

Day 3

Much Doing of Nothing
Whiling Away the Day
Rehydrating Dinner

Day 4

Leaving Home
Good Bye Carl
Camping on Bug Lake
Ghost Stories and History

Day 5

Out Day
A Brisk Wind Follows
Back to Civilization

Appendix

The Spot Says...

The Spot Says...

The full log from our Spot device tells an interesting story about the trip. This data includes the time spent in the car, both driving to the site and returning back home.

Rows marked with Track are locations that the Spot automatically collected every thirty minutes. Lines with OK are when we manually pushed the OK button, we did this once each morning and night. We used Waypoint to manually mark interesting locations like portages and places that we stopped for lunch.

GPS track of our trip

Event Date Latitude Longitude Km/h Altitude
2020-09-01
Track 6:42 45.300490 -75.925200 1.20 107.0 m
Track 7:12 45.446030 -76.593690 0.00
Track 7:42 45.751030 -77.018460 98.62 152.0 m
Track 8:12 46.015840 -77.445710 90.60 173.0 m
Track 8:42 46.212010 -77.892610 80.50 179.0 m
Track 9:11 46.236970 -78.313170 66.72 209.0 m
Track 9:41 46.078730 -78.445430 0.00
Track 10:11 46.029890 -78.480180 26.49 338.0 m
OK 10:31 46.029170 -78.479330 0.31
Track 10:41 46.023610 -78.486080 0.00
Track 11:11 46.034170 -78.513120 4.05 308.0 m
Track 11:40 46.043720 -78.537570 4.42 302.0 m
Waypoint 12:03 46.047830 -78.547940 2.50
Track 12:11 46.047870 -78.547910 0.04 305.0 m
Track 12:40 46.052670 -78.567930 0.00
Track 13:10 46.060610 -78.589230 3.51 302.0 m
Track 13:40 46.062860 -78.597560 0.00
Track 14:10 46.062820 -78.610780 1.70 317.0 m
Waypoint 14:21 46.062820 -78.612120 0.55
Track 14:39 46.062870 -78.612180 0.03 326.0 m
Track 15:09 46.062850 -78.612150 0.01 323.0 m
Track 15:39 46.062910 -78.612080 0.00
Track 16:09 46.062820 -78.612180 0.00 323.0 m
Track 16:39 46.062800 -78.612120 0.01 308.0 m
Track 17:09 46.062840 -78.611990 0.02 317.0 m
Track 17:39 46.062950 -78.611880 0.03 332.0 m
Track 18:09 46.062830 -78.612060 0.04 320.0 m
Track 18:51 46.062830 -78.612060 0.00 314.0 m
Track 19:21 46.062940 -78.612030 0.03 308.0 m
Track 19:51 46.062810 -78.612300 0.05 290.0 m
Track 20:35 46.062860 -78.612120 0.02 323.0 m
OK 20:35 46.062860 -78.612120 0.00
2020-09-02
Track 6:54 46.063060 -78.612180 0.00 314.0 m
OK 6:55 46.063060 -78.612180 0.00
Track 7:24 46.062780 -78.612060 0.06 323.0 m
Track 7:54 46.062950 -78.612060 0.04 323.0 m
Track 9:58 46.062700 -78.612210 0.01 344.0 m
Track 10:29 46.062690 -78.612210 0.00 308.0 m
Waypoint 10:44 46.062740 -78.612060 0.05
Waypoint 11:19 46.057120 -78.621340 1.66
Track 11:58 46.053880 -78.622410 0.57 284.0 m
Track 12:29 46.053720 -78.622470 0.04 317.0 m
Track 12:58 46.050700 -78.616500 0.00
Track 13:28 46.050830 -78.616330 0.58 344.0 m
Waypoint 13:46 46.046960 -78.613680 1.57
Track 13:58 46.046960 -78.613710 0.01 335.0 m
Track 14:28 46.034880 -78.607850 2.79 359.0 m
Track 14:57 46.016210 -78.609030 4.24 359.0 m
Waypoint 15:17 46.007000 -78.604190 3.38
Track 15:28 46.003560 -78.604980 2.11 356.0 m
Track 15:57 46.000540 -78.606110 0.71 359.0 m
Track 16:27 46.000530 -78.606020 0.01 365.0 m
Track 16:57 46.000640 -78.605990 0.03 380.0 m
Track 19:59 46.000890 -78.606260 0.01 -103.0 m
OK 20:13 46.000830 -78.606320 0.04
Track 20:26 46.000640 -78.606200 0.11 353.0 m
2020-09-03
OK 7:17 46.000950 -78.605990 0.00
Track 10:38 46.000690 -78.606050 0.01 374.0 m
Track 12:10 46.000860 -78.606260 0.02 362.0 m
Track 18:26 46.000610 -78.606140 0.00 374.0 m
Waypoint 18:26 46.000610 -78.606140 0.00
OK 19:39 46.000660 -78.606050 0.01
Track 19:55 46.000700 -78.606110 0.03 371.0 m
2020-09-04
OK 7:19 46.000930 -78.606260 0.00
Track 7:48 46.000900 -78.606140 0.02 383.0 m
Track 8:18 46.000740 -78.606200 0.04 353.0 m
Track 10:11 46.000180 -78.606290 0.00
Track 10:41 46.000310 -78.605690 0.00
Waypoint 10:57 46.000290 -78.605680 0.03
Track 11:11 46.009840 -78.602510 4.65 359.0 m
Track 11:41 46.029370 -78.606450 4.49 341.0 m
Track 12:10 46.037230 -78.604220 0.00
Waypoint 12:14 46.037220 -78.604150 1.61
Track 12:40 46.037490 -78.604220 0.07 359.0 m
Track 13:10 46.037420 -78.604370 0.00
Track 13:40 46.039010 -78.600420 0.00
Waypoint 13:49 46.038980 -78.600460 0.30
Track 14:10 46.041160 -78.593380 1.70 368.0 m
Waypoint 14:10 46.041160 -78.593380 0.00
Waypoint 15:55 46.046510 -78.590300 0.37
Track 16:10 46.049000 -78.585690 1.76 434.0 m
Waypoint 16:31 46.049580 -78.586460 0.25
Track 17:39 46.049800 -78.586460 0.02 458.0 m
Track 18:09 46.049560 -78.586460 0.05 428.0 m
Track 18:39 46.049530 -78.586510 0.01 428.0 m
Track 19:09 46.049510 -78.586460 0.01 422.0 m
2020-09-05
OK 7:18 46.049660 -78.586640 0.00
Track 8:17 46.049380 -78.586180 0.05 401.0 m
Track 8:47 46.049540 -78.586460 0.06 431.0 m
Track 9:38 46.049600 -78.586670 0.00
Track 10:08 46.049260 -78.586760 0.03 467.0 m
Waypoint 10:25 46.048820 -78.585600 0.36
Track 10:38 46.049030 -78.585530 0.11 473.0 m
Track 11:07 46.049170 -78.585440 0.04 431.0 m
Track 11:38 46.054080 -78.579410 1.43 317.0 m
Track 12:07 46.053980 -78.579380 0.02 320.0 m
Track 12:47 46.054010 -78.578580 0.09 326.0 m
Waypoint 12:52 46.054160 -78.579380 0.85
Track 13:17 46.046590 -78.545460 6.52 305.0 m
Track 13:47 46.036960 -78.515370 5.09 302.0 m
Track 14:17 46.028570 -78.501270 2.94 308.0 m
Track 14:47 46.037600 -78.472290 0.00
Track 15:17 46.066870 -78.457960 0.00
OK 15:19 46.030610 -78.480260 1.58
Waypoint 15:32 46.066880 -78.457950 20.91
Track 15:47 46.112190 -78.396330 26.78 377.0 m
Track 16:16 46.257240 -78.209260 44.81 260.0 m
Waypoint 16:27 46.246770 -78.179370 14.41
Track 16:46 46.172050 -77.824860 87.30 179.0 m
Track 17:16 46.065380 -77.474700 60.72 170.0 m
Track 17:46 45.765310 -77.074890 89.99 143.0 m
Track 18:15 45.495510 -76.669560 89.42 158.0 m
Track 18:45 45.304200 -76.033770 107.42 128.0 m
Track 19:15 45.329440 -75.721070 50.57 101.0 m
OK 19:19 45.319340 -75.713650 16.55
Track 19:45 45.319250 -75.713750 0.03 122.0 m