By the time we finished staking, Katarina and Veronique had just finished lugging all our gear over the "portage". So we had a late supper.
Right away we ran into problems. Jeremy was quite sick and shouldn't have worked at all. He still worked the first two days. The river we were supposed to use for access had many sections that were too rocky to canoe and had to be portaged. This was quite disconcerting for Ruth, Ryan, and Jeremy, when they just wanted to get started staking. Luckily, we had radios and we were able to change our plan partway through the day.
One thing that was great, was the bush. It was mostly black spruce swamp with some jack pine stands. This meant we could get a lot done in a day. We had planned on it taking us five days, but soon realized we could finish in four days.
