The next morning we tried aqain and this
time were successful. We left a message
with them to contact Gleasons and tell
them we would arrive in Atlin on Auqust
2nd, which would make us a few days late,

The next morning Bill was up briaht
and early and it was a beautiful day,
clear and sunny. He put the coffee on
then went outside and took pictures of
the lake with the mist rising and watch-
ed two moose arazing on the other side
of the lake. When breakfast was ready
he rousted the rest of us out. \e were
beainning to run low on a few thinas
such as flour, sugar, (things we had
stached at Hartz Creek) and pancake mix’
so we borrowed some from Barry's supplies
and carried on.

That day we spent 11 miserable hours
on the trail. We were either aoina
through bogs or the trail was like a
junale. The boqs were so had in some
places that the horses would sink almost
to their bellies and once Chestnut aot
boaaed down so badly we had to unpack
her to get her out.

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Mike, Commanche and Paleface crossing
Kautton River just before we came to
the boas and junqle!

One aood lIauagh we had that day was
at Tony. He had bought a new pair of
chaps for the trip and had even put our
brand (ZK) on each lea. Up to this time
he hadn't worn them but our leas were
qettina quite scratched from the brush
so out they came, They were a little
too lona for him so Mike measured them
on Tony and proceeded to cut the leas
to fit. That afternoon we were qoina
through a real boa and Tony's horse

the h

started to bog down so Tony bailed off.
The rest of us had already qone throuah
and were waitina for him. \lhen he bailed
off he looked just like bat man. Mike
started to laugh and called to him,
‘Nhat happened Unc, your horse run out
of aas?' Poor Tony, he was covered in
mud and couldn't see much humor in it
at all. He only wore his chaps once
after that.

About 4 in the afternoon we came to
a creek but thouaht it was too early to
stop as according to the map there was
another qood camp spot not too far away.
However, we rode until 10 that niaht
and never did come to another creek or
a decent place to camp. It was beainning
to aet dark so knew we had to stop soon.
le finally came to a spot where there was
a bit of water so we camped right on
the trail, using a rope to hanq our tents

‘on. \le tied up all the horses that night

and qave them a feed of oats as the
grazing was very poor. | was so tired
that as soon as the tents were up |
crawled in, The rest stayed up and were
qoing to make supper but were too tired
so ended up sharing a can of tomatoes
and joining me. The next mornina we had
a good lauqh at our makeshift camp and
thinas looked a little briahter.

That day we were determined to make
Nahlin and knew it couldn*™t be too
far. \le qot up at 9 am and just took it
easy. Left camp at 1 pm. The trail was
much better and soon we began winding
down to the Nahlin River. \Vle arrived
at Nahlin at 3 pm. There was a qood
camping spot for us and qood arazing for
and made camn.-

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