Rippin' through Rattlesnake

Hey! We’re back from our adventures in the Dryden area! This part of our trip has been our first time going out on our own. Both of us were super excited for this trip to start and boy was it an experience. Our duo journey started in Rattlesnake creek and it was such a beautiful, sunny, and overall calm day. We paddled through the shallow creek and took in all the gorgeous scenery. There were white water lilies throughout the creek and we couldn’t help but take our time taking pictures. After a couple of portages, me made it into Rattlesnake lake where a campsite needed to be maintained. We got to work and made that cute campsite into a beautiful oasis. We continued on and settled in a perfect campsite on Taylor lake. The next day we did lots of work clearing a couple portages through to Thunder cloud lake. André took care of the large trees with the bow saw and/or hatchet and I took care of the smaller brush with the loppers. This day was very humid and sunny so we took care and drank lots of Gatorade. We settled in on an island in Thunder cloud lake and took a well deserved swim. The next morning we did some work on the island, as it needed some clearing. We packed up and paddled to a nearby portage where we got stuck on because of severe thunderstorm. The storm drenched us and delayed or schedule but we pushed on. The next lake we went into was Seggemak lake and we had instructions to explore an old portage that could be a future alternate route. The portage was pretty flooded and lead us into an unnamed pot hole lake, where it looked like someone frequented. There was some leftover gear so we assumed there should be another portage but no such luck so we turned around. The first part of our trip finished at the end of Katisha lake and earlier than expected. Our Path of the Paddle Dryden members(Tim, Ember, and Garth) met us and drove us to our next section. They brought us pizza to pick up our dampened spirits and enjoyed a bit of a rest and air conditioning.  

Written by Tanice Edited by André