Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Site 34 on Clear Lake


While Blair Caron's invaluable Massasauga website grades this out at as a *** site, I would have had it as a four star. Lots of nice tent pads, good options for swimming depending on the wind's angle, fairly private from other sites or even lines of travel.
That said, we were somewhat disappointed to have the next campers paddle up to us from site #31 and more or less kick us off at 11 am. Given the proximity of their previous site (031), the fact that we were in the midst of packing up our tent and gear, and the smoke from the yet-to-be extinguished campfire was obviously visible from the lake, it seemed somewhat rude of them. They landed their canoe some 20 feet from our tent and proceeded to kill time by fishing. We were likely 20 minutes from being ready to head out, and wouldn't have been much of an imposition for them to wait before landing - just seemed rude is all. I doubt that I would have landed and then walked near other people's gear - perhaps that's just me.

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