Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Trip Planning Forum :: TLDR: Skidway Lake Question... Planning a BWCA trip from Brule Lake to Bower Trout Lake - Feasible right?
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jktorborg |
Could someone help ease my concerns and let me know if they went there last year (or even recently?) and how deep the lake is? I found some great records of other threads but they were pretty old and idk how water conditions now compare. The trip is in about a month. If anyone is further curious about plans, the way we are planning to tackle it is to leave one morning around 7:00 from grande marais, drop off the cars at the end, get to brule around 10:00, 1.5 hour paddle to the first portage or less, small portage between brule bay and Vernon, check out the waterfall at Vernon, arrive at the second portage (vernon-swan) around 1:00 pm or something, and have time to steal one of the campsites on swan. Then we might burn a day for fun at swan and leave camp there, then the third day we'd tackle the Swan to Skidway to Dugout to Marshall stretch (the one I'm slightly concerned about), on paper it's 2.5 miles of paddling, 129 total rods of portages (half a mile?) depending on how much of that is actually solid vs lake, not sure how water level dependant it will be? to be safe, expecting to spend a day getting from Swan to Marshall. Then we're zipping out early from Marshall to the car to do the roughly 3 hour hookup (ugh, it's 1.5 hours drive from each landing) and hopefully be able to put all 4 canoes on 2 cars with a double roof rack on each. We COULD plan on burning our "fun do nothing" day on Marshall and if dugout is impassable, we'd have plenty of time to turn around. Idk yet. That's the plan! If anyone notices any other glaring issues with that I would LOVE to hear them lol. I've planned many a BWCA trip before but have always had the peace of mind that if part of the trip is impassable we can turn around and be exactly or ahead of schedule at worst. The A to B nature of this one I'm trying has me really wanting to be certain about dugout and skidway. Thanks in advance for anyone who comments! I will update how this trip went at the end of it if anyone else wants to give it or a similar trip a try. |
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TuscaroraBorealis |
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