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GraniteCliffs |
I knew the portage was hinky even then re two options. I warned the lead canoe of the potential issue but one of the other dads assured me this thing in his hand, a gizmo called GPS would keep him on track. It was like a commercial on TV. His canoe, gear and people blindly soldiered on. We were no more than five minutes behind. We finished the portage and you guessed it. No canoe, gear or people on the other side. I knew immediately what had taken place. We waited a bit freezing to death. I finally headed back. Just in time to see them coming from the east along the south side of the swamp and heading back down the trail to the same lake we began on. They had actually done the portage back and forth that way twice. Needless to say, I still don't use GPS om the trail. |
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Gaidin53 |
I had planned on taking that route. I changed the route to go into Kahsahpiwi from Trant starting from Silence. Made the change due to Portage maintenance. Don’t think I made it any easier but Trant was a cool lake to see. Wish we could have camped in the nice campsite on Trant but pushed through to Kahsahpiwi. Ryan |
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Banksiana |
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portagedog09 |
The X going from Unnamed lake into Grey lake is to define an area that confuses people. A lot of people portage from Unnamed lake back into unnamed lake. " Yup! Coming out of Grey into unnamed once, I had a confused group ask me where they were and then argue with me about it. I finally managed to convince them I knew what I was talking about and got them on the right track. Interestingly, they looked like they just stepped out of a LLBean catalog. pd |
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Gaidin53 |
The X going from Unnamed lake into Grey lake is to define an area that confuses people. A lot of people portage from Unnamed lake back into unnamed lake. You have to cross a meadow pond type area in the middle to get to Grey lake. The Mountain is a nice jump spot I saw in a video if you are into that kind of thing. The deer head is pictograph sites. Ryan |
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sns |
So, Jackfish, any chance the bwca.com maps will ever include campsite & portage info for the Q? |
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TomT |
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Freeleo1 |
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Banksiana |
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Jackfish |
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Jackfish |
sns: "So, Jackfish, any chance the bwca.com maps will ever include campsite & portage info for the Q?" This is more of a question for Adam, but I wish there was. Maybe Adam will check in and offer some thoughts on the logistics of doing that. |
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GraniteCliffs |
Banksiana: "Last year the portage crew tried to discourage use of the eastern most portage into Grey (well really into the swamp). They blocked it off on the swamp side and did not clear the blow down. The fresh corduroy across the swamp was done exceedingly well." Does the corduroy give you an easy passage across the swamp? It seems that most of the time when I cross it is in either the spring with high water or during a particularly wet stretch. Almost always a slog. Except once when it was very dry and we pretty much walked across it. Likely headed there at the very end of May. |
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Gaidin53 |
red if 5* 4*, Blue is 3* Yellow is 2* 1* sites To look up campsite reviews and portage I formation for Quetico you need to Google a different paddle type planning website. Ryan |
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