Spaulding to BenchBoundary Waters portage Posted by: Speckled Season/Year: Summer 01 Water Level: average Length: 100 +or- rods Rating: difficult | Additional Perspectives: greybeard Brian Johnson
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Portage Description: The portage starts out with a long grueling climb up a hill, now that your atop the hill, there is damage everywhere, the whole hill has been devastated by the windstorm. The trail is not cleared, and requires dragging your canoe over and under the various trees laying across the trail, which is immensely overgrown and tough to follow at times. Once your across the top of the hill, you will look down an extremely steep hill, and way - way down there, that blue you see - that's Bench Lake. After winding down this cliff of a hill your there. Lake after portage: Bench Known campsites: None at all Lake Description: The lake is small and is stocked with Brook Trout, however all we seemed to catch were chubs. And for all that - now we get to climb out of this lake - that's right straight back up that incredibly steep hill Portage from Bench into:
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