Day 3. We decide that we don't have any other options but to go back the way we came. Through portage hell. We load up on water and make the trek. Out canoes are at a small pond. So I have to be dead on with my compass. The woods are so dense that you can’t see any land marks around you. I get us back within a 150 feet of our canoes. Awesome! What a relief to get through there. (BTW, when we hiked through we brought our life jackets and canoe paddles. I felt every pound. And to that fisherman we must have looked like lunatics.) We go through the remaining portages which are nothing compared to that last one, but there are still very tough.