The good, the bad and the ugly. Show us your pictures.....

Carp Lake to Birch Lake portage, 2007.






Birch Lake to Sucker Lake portage, 2007.

Yes... This IS a portage
From Caribou to Meeds. It was a very wet spring. May 2011

Moon to East Bearskin
East Bearskin to Alder
Insula to Kawishiwi River

First portage, our kitchen to the car, about 4 rods.


Landing at Jasper portage to Kingfisher.


Kingfisher to Ogish

Alpine to Red Rock 2005

My then 10 year old daughter on the long portage from Lower Pauness to Shell Lake. She had a blast on that trip!

badwater

Solo trip on beartrap river, furthest north portage at Peterson bay. The landing is super steep, slick rock, nothing to tie canoe to. My wood/ canvas canoe added to the problems. I’m quite certain that this landing is why the forest abandoned maintenance on this route

Mugwump PMA

2nd worst portage of mine.

Argo to Crooked

x2jmorris: "2nd worst portage of mine




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Yikes! With an aluminum canoe no less...
Hate to see what your worst portage was :-)

I think this is the portage into Shell? Anyway, first time I've ever paddled in the middle of a portage.

jwartman59: "



Solo trip on beartrap river, furthest north portage at Peterson bay. The landing is super steep, slick rock, nothing to tie canoe to. My wood/ canvas canoe added to the problems. I’m quite certain that this landing is why the forest abandoned maintenance on this route "

I'd agree. It took me an extra half hour to find that take out. I just would not let myself believe that the portage started up that steep granite. It did.

fadersup: "


I think this is the portage into Shell? Anyway, first time I've ever paddled in the middle of a portage.

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I tried to walk through that one last June. About the time I was shoulder deep, with both the front and back of the upside down canoe in the water, I decided maybe I should retrace my steps and paddle across.

I’ve always loved how well dogs do on portages.

We did that Shell one last fall. Never thought twice about putting the canoe in the water. Seemed obvious to me. But then, we've done the Frost River route. No idea if we used the actual portages on that route or just made our own but there were a lot of 2 rod, 3 rod, 5 rod portages.

Fourtown






Jitterbug






Lac La Croix







Moon Lake







Isabella








Stairway portage











Kek ponds







The Enchanted Forest portage










Little Isabella River











Ashdick - Swamp








Basswood (Back Bay)








Abinodgi -Swing











Beartrack - Thumb








Big Moose - Cummings









Cave - Ross








Big Rice - Hook








Clam









Edith - Brandt










Eskwagama (south)








Gadwall









Horseshoe - Gaskin










Good - Hula









Gotter - Flying









Ima - Hatchet







Kiskadinna - Davis









Rivalry - Gijikiki










Sema - pond







Skidway










Spaulding - Bench










Tesaker - Takamich








Wisini - Strup









Carl - Morgan









Little Trout - Misquah









Knife









Loon River









Partridge - Duncan






More portages

Ok Tuscarora, we get it. You've been all over the BWCA! Just kidding. Great pics, thanks for posting them.

Somewhere on the lady lake chain.

MichiganMan: "Ok Tuscarora, we get it. You've been all over the BWCA! Just kidding. Great pics, thanks for posting them."

+1

Yes that landing sucks

Devil's Cascade

Hustler to Oyster May of 2011.

Tuscarora-

Interesting to see some of those portages that I did this year. That beaver dam on the Davis-Kiskadinna is much bigger now and the pond formed was waist deep wading.

The Flying-Gotter portage has a much bigger landing below the stairs. We had some landing, but not nearly that much.