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09/07/2018 09:14AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
It seems like it's been relatively dry up there for a while and not much rain forecast for a while, so I'm assuming water levels are relatively low. Any recent reports on Frost River levels? Thoughts on levels?
 
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09/07/2018 03:58PM  
We went in at Sawbill a couple of weeks ago, and while we didn't go through the Frost this year, we were advised by the employee that the levels on the Frost were, indeed, low. The rivers that we covered appeared to be low but navigable, but those lower levels were attributable to beaver activity. I can also say that it rained (sometimes hard) all but one of the eleven days that we were up there, so that may have helped your cause out a bit. In fact, there were flash flood warnings one of the days.
09/07/2018 05:39PM  
Thanks, I go in the 13th at Cross Bay and trying to figure which way to go.
09/07/2018 08:14PM  
We were through Cross Bay and the water levels entering just after the portage from Snipe were low. Expect a bit of a push through that entry way to the main lake. At least it’s a firm, sandy bottom and not beaver muck!
09/11/2018 09:21AM  
Maybe not a lot of help, but since there isn't too much new info on Frost - I was on the west end of the BWCA last week, and while the rivers I went through seemed low they did not have any serious navigational problems other than a few more rocks. I paddled the river into Finger, then out of Finger south to Ga-Be - in fact did not have to portage out of Finger - just paddled though. Also paddled a bit on Mains Nord from Oyster. Only mucky stuff I had to manage was on either end of Shell-Pauness portage, and I suspect it is always like that there. Low water just overall did not make much navigational difference.

I did the Frost last June, and don't recall too many places with boggy, mucky landings except the portage from Pencil down to the Frost River (remember that portage is on the south side of the creek - not the north like marked on most maps). Beaver dams will be a bit more of a pull over. Good luck if you go that way. Should be coming into prime moose spotting time I would think.
09/12/2018 09:03AM  
Thanks, Jaywalker.
 
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