1MAY2011 near Pick City, ND - It was still very windy as I arose, though the snow was ended. At 1000 I left the hotel with Rick Longtin, an avid hiker whom I met at the Honey Pot Convenient Mart. The lake ice being still intact, we found the canoe in very good condition. Wow enough on that - if 50 mph winds for twenty hours will not break up the ice, it may take another week before it is gone. Right now the wind has diminished to only 30 or so mph. Rick and I retrieved the portage wheels, pulled the canoe another 30 feet into the woods and returned to Pick City. I got to the city hall about noon and shifted my gear to David Isaak's truck. By 1400 I was well fed on pancakes with Hazen sausage and inflating the portage wheels in David's metal barn. Back at the canoe, ________ Jergens and I pulled/pushed it up the bluff and to the road. Dave showed up about then with his cattle trailer and we took the canoe and all my gear to the campground below the dam. As the sun is setting I am alongside the canoe under the tarp and appreciative of a breeze ... being a breeze that is, and not a wind. Monday morning I will be back in the current - I love current.