Paddling Pageant and the Sioux Hustler portage
by Benutzer
Trip Type:
Paddling Kayak
Entry Date:
08/22/2006
Entry Point:
Moose/Portage River (north) (EP 16)
Exit Point:
Little Indian Sioux River (north) (EP 14)
Number of Days:
10
Group Size:
2
Part 10 of 14
Day 7 Monday August 28, 2006 79 high/45 low
Lucky Finn Lake, Range Line Creek, Upper Range Line Lake, Range Line Lake
Compared to the day before, this was a cakewalk. At least we'd gotten used to the routine of bushwhacking (swampwhomping?), and we got much luckier. Rangeline Creek was more navigable than we'd expected and we got to paddle much further down it than we'd paddled the entire day before. After that, it was back to drag through the grass, carry over the rocks and downed trees, pull and pole through the navigable areas, and use the moose trails where we could.
Once we reached the place where Rangeline Creek joins Rangeline and Upper Rangeline, we found the Sioux-Hustler Trail [insert trumpet sound and a chorus of Hallelujahs here]. We used the S-H Trail as a portage the rest of the way to the Rangeline campsite. Although the brochure I had on the trail said it was a quarter mile, my GPS said it was more like half a mile.
The site on Rangeline was nice. Pretty close to a tossup between whether we liked it or Emerald better. Emerald was prettier, but the fishing was better on Rangeline. The pike we caught trolling with shad raps were more in the 20-23" range, and we cooked up the biggest. Not being from the area, I'm not used to pike, so I had saved a paper we found at VNO on how to fillet them so that they'd be boneless, but of course I ended up misplacing it so we ended up picking a lot of bones out of them, which got to be annoying as it got dark. The paper later turned out to be folded up inside my map by the way. We mixed some of the fish in with some freeze-dried Pasta Primavera, so I guess it was Pike Pasta Primavera. Pretty good, actually.
Lucky Finn Lake, Range Line Creek, Upper Range Line Lake, Range Line Lake
Compared to the day before, this was a cakewalk. At least we'd gotten used to the routine of bushwhacking (swampwhomping?), and we got much luckier. Rangeline Creek was more navigable than we'd expected and we got to paddle much further down it than we'd paddled the entire day before. After that, it was back to drag through the grass, carry over the rocks and downed trees, pull and pole through the navigable areas, and use the moose trails where we could.
Once we reached the place where Rangeline Creek joins Rangeline and Upper Rangeline, we found the Sioux-Hustler Trail [insert trumpet sound and a chorus of Hallelujahs here]. We used the S-H Trail as a portage the rest of the way to the Rangeline campsite. Although the brochure I had on the trail said it was a quarter mile, my GPS said it was more like half a mile.
The site on Rangeline was nice. Pretty close to a tossup between whether we liked it or Emerald better. Emerald was prettier, but the fishing was better on Rangeline. The pike we caught trolling with shad raps were more in the 20-23" range, and we cooked up the biggest. Not being from the area, I'm not used to pike, so I had saved a paper we found at VNO on how to fillet them so that they'd be boneless, but of course I ended up misplacing it so we ended up picking a lot of bones out of them, which got to be annoying as it got dark. The paper later turned out to be folded up inside my map by the way. We mixed some of the fish in with some freeze-dried Pasta Primavera, so I guess it was Pike Pasta Primavera. Pretty good, actually.
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