Burntside to Crab

Boundary Waters portage
Posted by: mattengstrom
Season/Year: Summer 04
Water Level: average
Length: 400 rods
Rating: difficult
Additional Perspectives:
Jim Green
Marsh
Pat Stoiber
MTSabbath
RC
Lone Eagle
Tim
mattengstrom
Honson
owen
Tim
Janet

Portage Description:
recap - the forest service rerouted the part of this portage that starts at Burntside in '03. I traveled it in 9/03, and again in 7/04.

Since 9/03 - still not sure of the new length. McKenzie & Fisher haven't updated their maps. I asked a ranger that I ran into on Crab lake, and she didn't know either.

Anyway - the forest service has done a lot of work on the new section of the portage, and it's a lot better than last fall. It's still tough, with lots of up and down, but the footing has been smoothed out A LOT.

Have fun...

Lake after portage: Crab
Known campsites: 8+
Lake Description:

Portage from Crab into:
Little Crab
Clark


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