Has anyone made it to Ge-be-on-e-quet Lake from Nina Moose EP 16 on the first day? I know a lot depends on weather.

A few years ago I made it to Fish Stake Narrows on the first day. I was solo and double portaging with a stiff south wind, probably 15 mph with gusts to 20-25. Agnes and LLC were pretty scary. Even Nina Moose had white caps. I made FSN in about 9 hours from when I started portaging at the EP. Probably 3 more hours to get to Gebe.

Going through Oyster is probably quicker, but the portages from Oyster to Gebe were pretty rough when I went through there. But why rush??? I made FSN on the first day because I had a favorable wind and the forecast called for the wind to change to the north with rain the next day. I wouldn't plan on a day like that.

Planning to get from ep16 through Oyster and into Lady Boot Bay on Saturday in 1 day. 4 young men, all fit, doing single portaging. We aren't too worried about it unless weather forecast changes drastically. Worst case scenario we figured we would camp 1 night on Oyster or Gebe if needed.

My .02, I think it is a full but doable day. How early you start will be as important as the weather. I stayed on Ge-be last summer, then had a leisurely start and was on Oyster before noon, then paddled out the EP the next day without much strain. With an early start I could have paddled out in one day, and that's solo padding and double portaging.

One word of cation - if you go at a busy time, put in a hard day and get to Ge-be and find all sites full, what then? Have a plan B.

Thanks for the info everyone. We have 4 nights. I was hoping for 2 on g b then 2 on oyster. I'm thinking of plan b because we may not hit water until 11 am.

I just got back from a loop of Nina Moose, Agnes, LLC, Ge-be-on-e-quet, Oyster, and Nina Moose again. If you're planning to go the way we did it's a really hard first day and you'd need calm wind. Going the opposite way would be easier, but good luck finding the channel up from the Moose River to the Oyster River going north. Take an extra day if you can.

Hi Tom, how many nights did you have? Did you double portage?

My daughter and I took seven days to do the loop, double portaging. We weren't trying to cover ground. The first day was about four and a half hours from the entry to the top of Lake Agnes. The second day was about four hours to Fish Stake Narrows, and the third day was about three hours on to Ge-be-on-e-quet. That adds up to over eleven hours - probably realistic for us if we'd wanted to push that hard in a single day. Maybe you're faster paddlers, but the portages were mucky and didn't facilitate speed (I'm a marathon pacer and that helps me portage quickly).

Going the other way, we took three hours to get from Ge-be-on-e-quet to Oyster, a little over three hours from Oyster to Nina Moose, and not even two hours from Nina Moose to the entry (though it was raining hard and we had lightning in the distance to motivate us). That adds up to just eight hours, but it would be hard to navigate those creeks going north.

Very doable. Depends on how hard you want to push on your first day. I made it from Pocket (two portages past Gebonequet) out to the the LIS parking lot in a day on a fall trip. ( It was raining and we decided to push out instead of camping in the cold rain. ). Definitely shorter to go out the Moose River rather than LIS, so yes it can be done.