Has anyone been from Gardner Bay to Ted via L.newt,Newt and Milt or vise versa? How is it? I know some maps do not even show portages here. Chrismar does, and a friend of mine has been through but doesn't remember much.

I've done it a few times. The first time it was very low water and couldn't find the portages and it was only like my second or third canoe trip ever---if you asked me then , I'd say it was tough.

The other times I'd say they were very easy.

T

I was through there in 2012. It was late August; don't remember the water levels exactly, but some of the portages were very difficult to find. I had to bushwhack to find one, then unload the canoe quite a ways from dry land and shuttle our gear over a stretch that was too thin too walk on and too thick to paddle. I believe there was another portage in there that involved some interesting navigating in a beaver flowage. Anyway, we made it, but I would call it difficult. I think like tim says it would be much easier in high water.

I have read in the BWJ that low water creates enough problems that some people just take alternate routes. Outfitters such as Zup's might know the "current" conditions at time of trip. --Goose

Yup, did that last year as well as the Ted to Robinson part that I commented on in your other post.
There are portages all along the way but the Newt portages are pretty grown over. It's all doable.

PM me if you want specific details on fishing and campsites. I can't publish the rest.

Tom

I loved this route the time we did it. It's very wild. We went from Ted toward Gardner Bay. As others have said, a couple of the portage are hard to find, particularly the ones between Newt and Little Newt, and between LIttle Newt and Gardner Bay. If we had been going the other way, we might never have gotten started on the route, because I think it would be hard to find the first portage coming out of Gardner Bay. The trick is to just keep pushing up the "stream" through the sandy reedy marshy shallows until you would literally hit the trees. Then look for the portage.

Newt to Milt and Milt and Ted are pretty significant uphills for the length of the portages going from Gardner Bay to Ted, too.

For a more detailed description, see the entry from one of my trip reports at this link.