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Basecamp in Malberg area
by cyclones30

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/02/2018
Entry & Exit Point: Kawishiwi Lake (EP 37)
Number of Days: 8
Group Size: 2
Day 5 of 8
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Sunny and windy again, we decide to take an afternoon trip away from the wind up the Louse River. The whole time we’d been camped right next to it and thought the portage on all the maps started on a large rock in our view from camp. (though we’d yet to see anyone go in or out) We were wrong, portage starts up the river a bit. We took it and it was overgrown and nasty. We fished our way up the river, catching some fish at narrows and turned around at Frond and came back down. We skipped the portage back into Malberg as it was a very small beaver dam and some easy rapids. (now I know why the portage is overgrown)