Portage Description:
Maybe during high water this is floatable. It was a boulder and pothole field when we were there the first week of August. You would have to hop two boulders float a pothole and repeat for about 4 rods. There is a marshy bog on the north end that makes the last rod.

I had read a story in the book, Canoe Country Wilderness by William Rom, where he guided a family to Sedative Lake (pg 29) and made a Finnish fish soup called Kala Majaka from the pike they caught. Rom described the trek as "two short portages and a paddle along a stream to a lake with water as black as tar." He went on to mention numerous places for campsites but that was long before the area was BWCAW.

We had to break our way through a few dry rotted deadfalls across the water in the gap in the cliffs to reveal the rock field. Our group did not take the canoes any further. (Fair weather paddlers) A few of us climbed through the rock field, staying on the north wall, a side path in the cliff face climbs to twenty feet above the passage. Take your paddle to help keep your balance when hopping the rocks. Really nice pictures from that vantage point.

Lake after portage: Reflection Lake
Known campsites: None at all
Lake Description:
Reflection Lake: Very pretty shallow lake, more of a big pond compared to Ima Lake.

Sedative lake is beyond Reflection Lake, did not get a look at it.

Portage from Reflection Lake into: