Well, I had to go with a new post. Probly because they knew what a pussy Shaun was on our trip up to Murphy Lake, beyond both Bennett Lake and Middle Lake. He was whining how he wasn't sure he could make it all that way with the little load he was carrying. (It's is nearly 100% uphill for about four miles from the time you leave the truck until you're at the camp site we were at but he chose it so I have little sympathy for him.....) I soldiered on like the known GI I've been for the past 30+ years and he tried to find fault with my performance regardless of what I was carrying. Anyone who knows Shaun knows that I'm so full of crap you probably won't believe the rest of my post but the rest will be the truth I promise. Shaun carried a pack that weighted somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 lbs plus the canoe, which is either 28 to 32 extra pounds. I'm getting short of breath just writing this. Whilst we were in Murphy Lake camping and fishing Shaun told me I was the Down's Syndrome of camping and the Special Olympics of fishing but I think he changes his tune when he discovered that the piece of crap rod and reel he provivded me was just that.....I'll let him comment on that. The bottom line being that we caught a BUNCH of brook trout at Murphy Lake, ate them for two nights and kept enough for Shaun's buddy (The Kraut) to take some to his mother and still released as many as we caught, easily. I'll attach a couple of pistures from our trip. My favorite is the view from the mountain looking down on Murphy Lake - a hellacious climb in my opinion but well worth the effort when you get to see what you get to see (and you get to see it for free without the effort of paying someone to take you to the top) I liked Scott's view of the Zugspitz (no doubt spelled wrong) but that's the pussy view if ever there was one. I've been to the Zugsiptz, skiied it in fact - great fun - it's all a matter of perspective. Watch and enjoy the pictures I post on this blog.