Thursday, July 10, 2025 Woke to moderate rain. After a continental breakfast we headed out. Vert wet. Plan for the day was to do the 85 rod portage in to Hegman, then tge 20 rods into N Hegman, see the pictoglyphs on the north end   These pictoglyphs are the clearest I have seen. Next up the big portage. This was without a doubt the hardest and most challenging portage BY FAR I have endured in 15 trips. We thought with single portaging we could do it in 2 hours or so. HA! It started with the mud. With all the rain it was a nightmare. We had to scout without gear for doable routes through the moose muck. I sunk in twice to over my knee which required using all my strength to extricate myself. I had doubts that I would be able to but did was was exhausted very early on. Here is what the muck looked like: After navigating the swamp, we continued most uphill all the way through wet, slick rock gardens on a trail that had not seen much maintenance in some time. By the way, the map on BWCA.com is not accurate. Rather than going straight to home creek, you have to angle NW to intersect the Angleworm trail and then enter the lake from one of the trail campsites. I do NOT recommend the southernmost one. Finally, after not 2, not 4, but 6 hours of torture we emerged on Home Creek/Angleworm. We were toast and wanted the first available site. Fortunately site 1897 is a very decent 3* site with SW exposure on a point was open and there was a nice supply of firewood waiting for us. Fortunately it did stop raining early on during the portage. After enjoying a nice hot meal of grilled New York Strips and garlic mashed potatoes along with a snort of Makers, to bed we went.