Eating a Clif Bar, she considered her dwindling food supply. In Wilderness Survival for Dummies, she had read about foraging for food, but she did not want to meet Clara with only Reindeer Moss to share. At East lake-end (seen while canoeing), it looked as if there was civilization on the beaches. However, although the food in the free Tarclaver cafeterias was good, only faculty and high-level staff had spending money for luxuries. Helen had no money.

It had been her desire to draw the lake before she went to sleep, but as dusk fell, she put on the new-to-her long underwear, unfolded her blanket in a secluded area among the rocks, made a pillow of her totebag. In a few minutes she was asleep.