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Schaferhome	05/20/2024 04:08AM   Headed to Moose River South with 9 people in 3 canoes and a kayak. Wondering: 1) Where do we park? 2) How far do we have to carry our gear to get to the river? 3) How far from the canoe entry point until the first campsites? (Assuming Big Moose Lake is our best bet?). 4) Do we have any portaging we need to do? 5) How difficult is it to find our way back to our car at the same entry point going upstream? Thanks!
grizzlyadams	05/20/2024 08:25AM   https://bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=maps.entrydetail&locid=8&zoom=14&size=500&ft=e&locname=Moose%20River%20(south) This in in the Maps and Entry Points section. If you click on the portages it will tell you how long they are and you can see where all of the campsites are located.
TuscaroraBorealis	05/20/2024 09:50AM   Some information in this trip report. Big Moose & a little girl, a river less paddled
RodPortage	05/20/2024 06:33PM   TB, I have learned a lot from your trip reports over the years, and you almost always have one to point to. Have you ever documented how much of the park you've visited? I don't remember seeing that, but I'd like to.
	05/21/2024 07:51AM   I paddled in there last fall and the research said that after the 150 rod portage the river was low and look out for rocks. What I found was quite
jsmithxc	05/21/2024 07:57AM   I started this report as a guest paddle because I did not log in. Could not delete it so I will finish it here. I paddled in there last fall and the research said that after the 150 rod portage the river was low and look out for rocks. What I found was quite different. There are two beaver dams that basically go wall to wall in the valley. The first is right at the portage. Its really two dams that incorporate a rocky bulge on the trail so it's easy to get to the river beyond. What I saw there was totally different. Instead of a rocky river bed there was actually a shallow weedy lake, no river channel at all. The valley was full of weedy water. It was bordered on both sides by dead trees. I picked my way up the valley until I got to the second dam, one of the most impressive dams I have seen in the BWCA. It was more like a dam in the middle of a lake. I needed to pull over but traveling alone it seemed like a difficult a perhaps risky proposition. With a partner I would have tried, but I turned around. If the dams have not failed the weedy swamp/lake will be there, if they are breeched who knows. The 150 rod portage was flat and good walking. The new lake is really unlike anything I have seen in the BWCA. Have fun.
egknuti	05/20/2024 09:02PM   There is a small parking lot to park and you put in right there at the bridge. I believe there are two portages to the lake. The first and best campsite is to your left-if I remember correctly. There are a few other campsites to choose from as well. You’ll have not problem finding your way back and the current is really negligible.
TuscaroraBorealis	05/20/2024 09:26PM   RodPortage: "TB, I have learned a lot from your trip reports over the years, and you almost always have one to point to. Have you ever documented how much of the park you've visited? I don't remember seeing that, but I'd like to." I do write the lakes I've paddled on the inside of the canoe but, many of the names have faded and I only write the names of the lakes that that canoe has been on. Of course, there are the trip reports too (although I don't always write one up.) Without going into too great of detail...the short answer is "no" I don't keep an official running tab/log book of where I've been or how many lakes I've visited.