Poker Lakes

 Since it was the first overnight canoe trip of the season I decided to keep it simple. So I picked the Poker Lake loop. My friend and I started around noon from W. Bentshoe Lake. Once we portaged to Poker Lake we had the whole area for ourselves.

 We picked a very slow pace, being afraid that we will get to the campsite too early. Even so we got to our campsite on Cinder Lake around 3 p.m. We had plenty of time to check the North Bay and East Bay of Cinder Lake.

During the night we had a loon concert, some frogs for awhile and a distant owl. It felt really good to be again in the middle of it (peaceful nature).

 The next day we packed and we were on our way by 8:30 a.m. Muck Lake wasn't too bad but it slowed
us a bit.

We stopped on a day use site on Upper Crane Lake. The weather was so good these two days, I was not ready to get back. But we eventually did around 2:00 p.m. when we met the first people since yesterday.