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Paddle buddy
05/03/2025 08:26PM
  
I'm entering at moose portage river north on Thursday and I'm a little concerned about the water levels with the late ice out and storms. I know a few years ago, the river were flowing so strong that people had to walk their Canoe up the river which is not what I'm trying to do being solo and all. If anyone has been out in that area can chime in. I'm think about switching permits before it's too late, maybe Mundro a day earlier but then again it's been know to flood as well.
 
egknuti
05/05/2025 07:33AM
  
The water will be high, but nowhere near it was after the storm last year.
 
desertcanoe
05/05/2025 07:34AM
  
My son and I went in at Little Indian Sioux North on Thursday and came out last night.
Water levels were quite high.
Example: the first 100 feet of the portage at Lower Pauness along Devils Cascade were under 18 inches of water.


On Friday and Saturday the portages all had small streams running down them. But by Sunday they were puddles and starting to dry.


And there weren't the incredible raging torrents that we all saw video of after last year's rains.


We made it back to Lynx, then Loon, and did get turned around. But by impassable ice floes, not water flows. (Ice was going out super-fast on Sunday and I would expect will be fine maybe by today or tomorrow.)


So...I would count on there being PLENTY of water. And if you're dry-footing it, well, you might not be. But nothing absolutely crazy/dangerous/unpassable.