Monday, September 17, 2012

Day 15: August 16, 2012

It rained so much last night! The rain ended up being really loud on the tarp, but we stayed nice and dry in our tent, and so did Angela and Jennifer in theirs. And our rock refrigerator was still standing strong!! There were gale warnings in the forecast for today, which we weren't looking forward to because of our inflatable boat. But it was the last lake, so we figured that we could accomplish anything we set our minds to, since we had accomplished so much already!!

We did about an hour of backwoods hiking to reach our destination today- Ahmik lake! It was a really nice lake to end on- not too big.


Also, finally on the last lake, I identified Utricularia intermedia correctly!! If only I'd gotten it right before the last lake. Ah well, better late than never! :)
It's behind that Nuphar flower!!
Another butterfly friend, just like at the first lake of this trip!
We're all done!! I'm so proud of all of the work that we've done. :)
 We hiked back, made dinner, and processed our samples from the lake!! It's so surreal that we have no more lakes to sample... I don't think it's really sunk in yet. It was still really windy when we went to sleep- there were whitecaps out on the lake! Our last hike is tomorrow, and the next day we'll be leaving on the Ranger III!

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