7/13/2018, Boundary Waters: Entry Point 30: Kawishiwi River

	With: Julie Keller-FitzPatrick, Sally Blauvelt, Bill Blauvelt, Jeff Resnick, Lauren Resnick
	We set out early for a long day -- ten hours of paddling! I had been massively uncomfortable squeezed into the bow position, so today and for the rest of the trip Julie graciously agreed to paddle bow while I drove. I had always sneered at guys who insisted in paddling stern and stuck their wives in the bow position, but, gee-zeus, there really is no leg room up front! First we went south on Lake Two until we could turn east to cross the top of Lake Three and all of Lake Four. We went north on Lake Four with two portages, east on Fire Lake, then portaged again to an un-named channel that took us south to Hudson Lake. On Hudson Lake we headed back west, where three more portages brought us to Lake Four so we could backtrack to camp. All of the portages were around little rapids on the Kawishiwi River, which connects all the lakes. We actually ran one of them, until we discovered it led us to a cove with a very rocky outlet which would have been hard on our Kevlar canoes, so we portaged back up and went around. Back on the correct route, the actual portage was just a little lift-over, and the rapid was swimmable. We took a swimming break here.

	1. Our 15-mile day; Lakes Two, Three, and Four, and the Fire Lake/Hudson Lake loop

	2. Camp, morning of day two

	3. Camp, morning of day two

	4. Lake Three

	5. Julie at lunch break

	6. Lauren, Jeff, and Bill on a short portage and break

	7. Jeff considers swimming the falls

	8. Jeff swimming the falls

	9. Jeff lives to tell the tale

	10. Everyone goes for a swim!

	11. Our next-to-last portage

	12. The only whitewater we paddled

	13. Sally and Bill running the only rapid we paddled

	14. Julie and me